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    The future of South Asia: population dynamics, economic prospects, and regional coherence

    Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
    If demographic change is to shed lights on a region’s future, what do we foresee for South Asian economies in 2060? This paper explores the economic prospects of South Asia from a demographic viewpoint.
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    Human rights and status of older women in india - a national study

    Agewell Foundation, 2011
    India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+).  This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from the mainstream of the society. Living as second class citizen for centuries, their mindset has also developed accordingly and never enjoyed privileges of development.
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    Sex and age matter: improving humanitarian response in emergencies

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011
    Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a crisis or emergency.  As a result, the present humanitarian system is much less evidence-driven than it should be and than it would like to be.
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    Living arrangements of the elderly in China

    RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 2011
    Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially in light of the population policy implemented since the late 1970s, and rural young people moving away from parents into cities in large numbers.
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    China and India, 2025, a comparative assessment

    RAND Corporation, 2011
    China and India will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades. As prominent members of the G-20, their influence will be manifest in the global economy, in global politics, and in the global security environment.
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    Overview of available policies and legislation, data and research, and institutional arrangements relating to older persons - progress since Madrid

    HelpAge International, 2011
    The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and its Political Declaration (Madrid Plan) were adopted in April 2002 by the 159 governments which attended the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid. Priority Directions decided upon are: 1. Older persons and development; 2. Advancing health and well-being into old age; and 3. Ensuring enabling and supportive environments.
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    The Graying of AIDS

    Approximately one quarter of the people living with HIV in the USA 2005 were 50 or older, and studies project that by 2015 more than half of all people living with HIV in the US will be aged over 50.&
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    Centre for Research in Economic Analysis

    The Centre for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) focuses on economic integration issues.
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    Poverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
    The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households
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    Effects of Argentina’s social security reform on labor markets and poverty

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2011
    In 1994, Argentina introduced Pensions Reform and Unemployment Benefits as a major reform component to its social security system. This paper analyses the effect of introducing new individual accounts in the pension system over wages, employment and poverty.

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