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  Latin America’s aging challenge: demographics and retirement policy in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009

  Latin America’s population aged 65 or over will triple to 18.5 percent by 2050. Fertility is declining. The coming age wave poses two fundamental challenges for Latin America. The first is to fashion national retirement systems capable of providing an adequate level of support for the old without imposing a crushing burden on the young.
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  Aging in Asia: trends, impacts and responses

  Asian Development Bank, 2009

  Within the next few decades, Asia is poised to become the oldest region in the world; reforming policies and creating new structures and institutions to address this challenge is a huge and complex undertaking that requires a big head-start.
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  The Latin American experience in pension system reform: coverage, fiscal issues and possible implications for China

  Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009

  The pension reform experience of the Latin American countries in the past two decades shows that the intended reforms did not manage to meet their objectives. Countries undertook structural pension reforms focused mainly on addressing the weaknesses of the contributory schemes, but barely addressing the non-contributory element.
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  Impact of old age allowance on health-related quality of life among elderly persons in Bangladesh

  Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2008

  This study examines the impact of small-scale old age allowance, initiated by the government of Bangladesh in 1998, on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of elderly persons. Beneficiaries have been increased from 0.5 million in 1998 to 1.6 million in 2006, and this is a cross-sectional study conducted in 10 of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.
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  Pension reform and old age grants in South Africa

  University of Pretoria, 2007

  The absence of a mandatory tier of the South African contributory system makes it unique from an international perspective. Furthermore, the absence of any form of state provision (or delivery) of an earnings-related retirement system is unusual.
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  The private affairs of public pensions in South Africa: debt, development and corporatization

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2009

  Toward the end of its rule, the apartheid government in South Africa converted its contributory pension system for employees in the public sector from one that effectively functioned as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) scheme to a fully funded scheme.
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  Social security pension reforms in Thailand and Indonesia: unsustainable and unjust

  Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2008

  Historically, both Thailand and Indonesia have had relatively limited social security programmes, in terms of labour-force coverage and public expenditure. In the last decade, both have embarked on apparently ambitious reforms to move towards a more embracing system.
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  Country report: ageing in Nigeria – current state, social and economic implications

  Research Committee 11 Sociology of Aging of the International Sociological Association, 2009

  Nigeria is yet to enact a National Policy on the care and welfare of older persons. Since March 2003 it has remained in draft form.
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  The universal social pension in Nepal: an assessment of its impact on older people in Tanahun district

  HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009

  Nepal introduced a non-contributory social pension scheme in 1995. This scheme is unique to Asia being the primary universal pension scheme in the region and a model for other developing countries.
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  The social pension in India: a participatory study on poverty reduction impact and role of monitoring groups

  HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009

  Poor older people in India have had the benefit of a means-tested social pension for over 10 years. Selection of beneficiaries is a responsibility of local government, and there are reports that the scheme does not always benefit the intended recipients.

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