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    The Demographic Dividend: Evidence from the Indian States

    International Monetary Fund, 2011
    Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. This study focuses on India, which will be the largest individual contributor to the global demographic transition ahead.
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    Institutional care for older people in developing countries: under the policy radar? The case of Buenos Aires, Argentina

    University of East Anglia, 2011
    Many developing countries are seeing a rapid growth of residential care homes for older people. In the main, these are small-scale, informal and entirely unregulated.
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    ICT enabled independent living for elderly

    2010
    We are living in the midst of an unprecedented transition: the rapid ageing of the inhabitants of the industrialised world, accompanied by a diminishing number of young people. Figures in the Green Paper on Demographic Change launched by the Commission show that by 2030 there will be a shortage of about 20.8 million people of working age in the EU.
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    Ageing and the protection of human rights: current situation and outlook

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2012
    This study aims to supplement earlier CELADE (Population Division of ECLAC) contributions to the effort to move towards an international convention on the human rights of older persons.
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    Impact of health education on health-related quality of life among elderly persons: results from a community-based intervention study in rural Bangladesh

    Health Promotion International, 2009
    This study examines the change in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among (60 years) elderly persons as a result of health education intervention. A community based intervention study was performed in eight randomly selected villages (Intervention: n ¼ 4; Control: n ¼ 4) in rural Bangladesh.
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    Female labor force participation and informal care of adults: evidence for a middle-income country

    Department of Economics, Universidad de Chile, 2012
    The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries. This paper analyses the relationship between providing informal care to adults and labour outcomes in Chile - a middle-income Latin American country with a rapidly ageing population.
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    Global Pension Systems and Their Reform Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2012
    Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide financial crisis and the adjustment to an uncertain “new normal” will make future pension systems different from past ones.
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    Developing Asia’s Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2012
    Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
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    Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2012
    Older people sufer height shrinkage during ageing. Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height shrinkage from ageing.
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    Population Ageing and the Non-communicable Diseases

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2012
    Susceptibility to Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) increases with age. As populations age, NCDs cause a growing proportion of all deaths. Rapid reductions in fertility combined with improvements in survival lead to population ageing, wherein an increasing proportion of the population is concentrated among older age groups.

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