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    Global population ageing: peril or promise?

    World Economic Forum, 2012
    If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburdened health care systems. This book is the product of a collaboration among the business, political, academic, and other leaders of society that make up the Network of Global Agenda Councils.
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    State of world population 2011: people and possibilities in a world of 7 billion

    United Nations Population Fund, 2011
    This report provides a snapshot of how a number of countries are facing diverse demographic challenges, ranging from ageing populations to high fertility rates, and from urbanisation to the emergence of new generations of young people.
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    Ageing, solidarity and social protection: time for progress towards equality

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2012
    This document analyses the outlook for population ageing and advocates mainstreaming this issue into the public agenda. It introduces its central theme of equality and ageing. Concepts are presented and analysed, with particular emphasis on the challenges facing social protection and solidarity.
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    What is the Role of Social Pensions in Asia?

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2012
    There is growing interest among policymakers in the potential role of noncontributory transfers as an instrument to address a variety of policy challenges, including old age poverty and vulnerability, rapid population ageing, the effects of migration on intergenerational family support structures, and the effects of informality on social protection systems.
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    Impact Assessment of Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in India (2011/2012)

    Agewell Foundation, 2012
    Review of the impacts of the MIPAA in terms of what actions the Government of India has undertaken in the ten years since the plan was approved. The report argues that whilst the population of older persons in India is increasing rapidly an elder-friendly environment is hardly seen in the country. Therefore the majority of older persons remain marginalized, isolated and neglected.
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    Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)

    CARDI is a not for profit organisation developed by leaders from the ageing field across Ireland (North and South) including age focused researchers, academics, statutory, voluntary and community sect
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    A global view on demographic pressure and labour market participation

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2011
    Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio - the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives an incomplete picture of fiscal pressure from demographic changes.
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    Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe

    Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 2011
    Spurred by the ageing transition, many governments have made wide-ranging reforms, dramatically changing Europe‟s pensions landscape. Nevertheless there remain concerns about future costs, while unease about adequacy is growing. This study develops a comprehensive framework to assess pension system sustainability.
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    Bargaining with grandma: the impact of the South African pension on household decision making

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2011
    The expansion of the South African old age pension is interesting to economists firstly because extent to which this money effectively increases the well-being of those who receive it is an important question for a policymaking, but also as the pension is distributed on an individual, not household, level and is given to both men and women.
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    Biggin’ it up – food security and obesity in Jamaica and St Lucia

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    The food systems and the nature of food security problems in the Caribbean countries are gradually changing. This paper explores two different aspects of food security, namely undernourishment and overweight in the two Caribbean Islands of Jamaica and St. Lucia.

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