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    Why social pensions are needed now

    HelpAge International, 2006
    The provision of social pensions - state provided non-contributory regular cash transfers to older citizens, given at specific ages, is increasingly being seen as a win-win policy, reducing the poverty of older people and their dependents and increasing older people’s status, material security and access to services.This briefing paper argues for the greater use of social pensions for the follo
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    Who knows what about their pensions? financial literacy in the Chilean Individual Account System

    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
    This paper looks at what members of the Chilean pension system know about their pension system, and whether they respond to incentives to learn more about their benefits depending on whether they stand to gain most from a particular aspect of the pension system.The author provides a brief overview of the Chilean pension system, which is seen a model for pension reform worldwide, and then using
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    Urban versus rural mortality among older adults in China

    Population Council, USA, 2006
    This paper investigates variations in the mortality of older adults across urban and rural areas of China.
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    Ageing, poverty, and public policy in developing countries: new survey evidence

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    The paper reviews the contribution that new survey evidence for developing countries is making to an improved understanding of incidence and characteristics of old age poverty and of the role of non-contributory pensions in providing an effective policy response.The paper:reviews regional survey evidence on the incidence and profile of poverty in Africa and Latin Americaexamines the
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    Older people in Aceh, Indonesia 18 months after the tsunami: issues and recommendations

    HelpAge International, 2006
    This report centres on the situation of older people in Aceh, Indonesia, and provides a selective assessment of ongoing rehabilitation programmes regarding the inclusion of older people over the first 18-month period of crisis intervention. The research began with assessments in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka immediately after the tsunami disaster of December 2004.
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    2006 world population data sheet

    Population Reference Bureau, 2006
    The data sheet provides up-to-date demographic, health, and environment data for all the countries and major regions of the world.This issue of the data sheet emphasises the forces shaping migration rates around the world, suggesting that:many developing countries experience inflows of people from other developing countries.
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    Dangerous demographies, the scientific manufacture of fear

    The Corner House, UK, 2006
    This briefing looks at debates in Italy that argue that its nation’s birthrate is too low - debates highlighted by Government fears, and echoed by media reports that are going so far as to predict the end of the Italian race and the death of Italian culture.
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    Older persons AIDS knowledge and willingness to provide care in an impoverished nation: evidence from Cambodia

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006
    This paper examines the issue of caregiving among men and women age 60 and older in Cambodia who are being called on to be primary caregivers for their children who contract AIDS. Results indicate that older women are less knowledgeable about AIDS than reproductive aged women but more likely to state a willingness to provide care.
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    Alzheimer’s: the disease of the century

    International Longevity Centre, 2006
    This review provides a short history of the progress that has been made in Alzheimer’s Disease research over the last 30 years, and identifies some of the seminal discoveries and insights that contributed to this progress.
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    The Chilean pension reform turns 25: lessons from the Social Protection Survey

    Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
    In 1980, Chile dramatically reformed its retirement system, replacing what was an old insolvent PAYGO programme with a new structure (AFP System) that relies heavily on funded defined contribution individual accounts. In addition, eligibility and benefit requirements were standardised, and a safety net for old-age poverty was strengthened.

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