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    HelpAge - job vacancies

    All HelpAge job vacancies are posted on their website. Please check regularly to see if there is a position that you would like to apply for.
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    Demographic transition and the regulatory shortcomings of Brazil’s social security

    National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
    In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly  and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while the workforce will be shrinking.
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    First-round impacts of the 2008 Chilean pension system reform

    University of Michigan Retirement Research Center, 2011
    Chile’s innovative privatised pension system has been lauded as possible model for Social Security system overhauls in other countries, yet it has also been critiqued for not including a strong safety net for the uncovered sector. In response, the Bachelet government in 2008 implemented reforms to rectify this shortcoming.
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    Why does population aging matter so much for Asia? Population aging, economic growth, and economic security in Asia

    Asian Development Bank, 2011
    Asia faces the challenge of population ageing. Youthful populations that contributed substantially to growth in the past are maturing and countries that currently have relatively youthful populations will also experience substantial graying in the years to come. Asia’s demographic transition poses two huge challenges:
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    Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania

    The overall research themes of PARC include:
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    International comparisons in health economics: evidence from aging studies

    RAND Corporation, 2011
    International comparisons of health outcomes are growing in importance as a method of gaining insight into the determinants and consequences of health status. This paper attempts to provide an overview of the literature that uses micro-level data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages.
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    On the edge: why older people’s needs are not being met in humanitarian emergencies

    HelpAge International, 2011
    When disaster strikes, older people are among the most vulnerable to neglect, injury, death and disease, yet their needs are often overlooked. This report sets out the scale and nature of this problem and makes recommendations for change.
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    Documenting good practices at partner level

    HelpAge International, 2011
    During the period 2006 – 2010, a regional HIV and AIDS advocacy programme was implemented in the sub Saharan African countries. In this respect, HelpAge and its partners undertook a number of activities under the thematic areas of HIV prevention to address the impact of AIDS on older people.
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    Europe: leading the way: why the EU must make its development cooperation age-friendly

    HelpAge International, 2011
    Older people are some of the poorest of the world’s poor, where 100 million older men and women live on less than a dollar a day. This paper argues that the EU must rise to the challenge of poverty reduction by enabling older men and women to claim their rights and participate fully in development programmes.
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    Demographic change and economic growth in South Asia

    Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
    Demographic change can make powerful contributions to economic growth.  This has strong implications for understanding past growth in South Asia and assessing and shaping its future prospects. This paper attributes some of the improvements that South Asian economies achieved to the rising share of working-age people in the population.

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