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    An aging world: 2008

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2009
    Population ageing has emerged as a major demographic worldwide trend. On the one hand the reality of global ageing and increased longevity represents a triumph of medical, social, and economic advances. But on the other, population ageing has created significant challenges to health care systems, and existing models of social support, pensions and insurance.
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    Building a society for all ages

    Building a society for all ages, UK Government, 2009
    UK Government strategy paper to designed to help Britain prepare for our ageing society. The paper highlights the need for a cultural shift, to build a vision of a society for all ages – where people are not defined by their age, and prejudice does not prevent harnessing the skills and experience of the older population.
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    Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
    In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed the Chilean model in the 1990s.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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    Protecting the poor against health shocks

    Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006
    Ill-health is one of the most serious challenges that many households have to face. This short paper from the Institute of Development Studies provides a background to catastrophic illness, health perceptions, attitudes and beliefs. The authors also consider health related interventions.
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    Urban poverty and health in developing countries

    Population Reference Bureau, 2009
    This bulletin, published by the Population Reference Bureau, provides a sketch of urban health in developing countries, documenting the intra-urban differences in health for a number of countries and showing how the risks facing the urban poor compare with those facing rural villagers.
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    Seguro Popular in Mexico: is premature evaluation healthy?

    The Lancet, 2009
    This article, published in The Lancet, presents an innovative cluster-randomised trial of health insurance, Seguro Popular, in Mexico. Similar to all large-scale effectiveness evaluations, the authors acknowledge that this study has limitations. For instance, the short implementation period could have precluded the identification of an effect on outcomes that are unlikely to change rapidly.
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    Economic implications and sustainability of micropensions in the era of pension reforms in India

    International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009
    The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme.  It provides individual retirement accounts, product choices, professional fund management by competing private fund managers and portability through centralised record keeping and administration.
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    Pension systems for the informal sector in Asia

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2009
    The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age.
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    The impact of drought on household vulnerability: the case of rural Malawi

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008
    Vulnerability to poverty in Malawi is highly associated with risk. Households face multiple shocks, most of which threaten their livelihoods and impact negatively on their welfare. Among the important risks that rural households face is drought, which is exacerbated by environmental change.

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