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  Pension reform: issues and prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes

  Pensions Online, World Bank, 2006

  The need to address the demographic and economic reform pressures while avoiding creating additional burdens for future workers has generated international interest in a new genre of pension systems, non-financial or notional defined contribution schemes (NDCs).
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  Grandmothers promote maternal and child health: the role of indigenous knowledge systems' managers

  Indigenous Knowledge Initiative, World Bank, 2006

  This paper argues that the contribution of senior women, or grandmothers in managing indigenous knowledge (IK) systems is overlooked by most development programmes which do not acknowledge their influence or explicitly involve them in efforts to strengthen existing family and community survival strategies.It suggests that many development programmes assume that the best way to introduce new inf
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  New European Member States and the dependent elderly

  Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada, 2005

  The ten new Member States who joined the European Union in May 2004 have increased the population of EU-15 by 20 percent.
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  Demographic dividend and prospects for economic development in China

  United Nations Population Division, 2005

  This report evaluates the impact of changes in the Chinese population age structures on its economy, both in the past two decades and in the near future.Demographically, China has transformed itself from a demographic transitional society, where reductions in mortality led to rapid population growth and subsequent reductions in fertility led to a slower population growth, to a post-transitional
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  Social protection of the elderly in Swaziland

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This study investigates the vulnerability of the elderly in Swaziland and highlights the extent to which selected programmes respond to the needs of the elderly.The findings of the research reveal that:in the absence of adequate pension, most of the elderly rely on farming and in times of drought, they become vulnerable to hunger.
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  On the agenda: older migrant women: facts, figures, personal stories : an inventory in five EU Countries

  AGE+, 2005

  This reports summarises key findings on the situation of older migrant women in the five participating countires of the AGE+ project - the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy.The report argues that older migrant women belong to a vulnerable group. Statistically they are hardly visible and their lives go practically unnoticed.
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  Population aging and the macroeconomy: explorations in the use of immigration as an instrument of control

  Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population, McMaster University, Canada, 2005

  This report uses simulation methods to explore the effects of immigration as a control instrument to offset the economic and demographic consequences of low fertility rates and ageing population distribution. A series of experiments are presented, designed to generate the time paths of a hypothetical but realistic economic-demographic system under alternative assumptions about immigration policy.
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  Social security reform - other countries’ experiences provide lessons for the United States

  Government Accountability Office, US Congress, 2005

  All countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have, to some extent, altered their national pension systems, consistent with their different economic and political conditions.
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  A new pension settlement for the Twenty-First Century - the second report of the Pensions Commission

  Pensions Commission, 2005

  The Second Report of the UK Pensions Commission sets out the its conclusions on the likely evolution of the UK pension system if policy is unchanged, and its recommendations for a new policy direction.The Commission has concluded that:the current system of private funded pensions combined with the current state system will deliver increasingly inadequate and unequal resultsthe state
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  Growing up global: the changing transitions to adulthood in developing countries

  National Academies Press, 2005

  This paper examines how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries, and what the implications of these changes are designing youth policies and programmes.The research finds that, in general terms, the interval between childhood and the assumption of adult roles is now lengthening.

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