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    Non-contributory pensions and poverty reduction in Brazil and South Africa

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005
    This paper considers the incidence of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using comparable datasets the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes.
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    Projecting immigration: a survey of the current state of practice and theory

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2004
    This paper aims to assess where projection-making agencies stand in their practice of immigration projection and to explore how theoretical insights about immigration may help them improve their practice.
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    Pension reform: how macroeconomics may help microeconomics – the Czech case

    Institute for Social and Economic Analyses, Czech Republic, 2004
    In a system where current Czech pensions are paid from current payroll pension taxes, what would be the advantages of a different pension system? The paper combines macro and microeconomic approaches to reforming the pension system.
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    The changing role of older people in African households and the impact of ageing on African family structures

    Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004
    This paper reviews how the effect of HIV/AIDS has changed the roles and responsibilities of older people in African households and family structures. Older people are now key to the survival of an increasing number of orphaned and vulnerable children and adults that are sick from AIDS.
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    The challenge of ageing for social security in South Africa

    Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004
    This paper examines the concept and domains of social security as well as the demographic and social imperatives of the South African older population in relation to social security.It reviews the role of the government in the provision of social assistance to the older population within the international and South African legislative framework; the types of grants provided; and focuses on the
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    Policy and programmatic measures taken to meet the needs of the elderly: Africa’s response to a budding challenge

    Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004
    This paper examines the policy and programmatic measures taken so far by African countries to meet the needs of the elderly since 1994.
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    Poverty among the elderly in South Africa

    Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004
    This paper examines the socioeconomic status of the elderly, disaggregated by gender, by: comparing their level of education and labour force participation to other members of the society; examining disability among the elderly which is one of the components of their health; offers a proxy of poverty indicator or the living standard index at the individual level; and examining the level and variat
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    The erosion of traditional forms of care for the elderly and its implication for the elderly in Nigeria

    Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2005
    This study explores how Nigerian youths feel about care-giving for the elderly and the difference between feelings and action, considering that they will have the responsibility of taking care of the elderly in the future either as family members or as policy makers.Caring of the elderly has always been taken for granted to be filial responsibility with little or no government support in Nigeri
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    Ageing and employment policies: Korea

    Ageing Society, 2004
    With one of the most rapidly ageing populations in the OECD area, over the longer term, Korea faces the possibility of labour force contraction and related economic problems.
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    Do children act as old age security in rural India?: evidence from an analysis of elderly living arrangements

    Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2004
    This paper examines the pattern of living arrangements among male and female elderly family members in India, using National Sample Survey data and derives implications for children as old age security in rural India. The burden of caring for the elderly is traditionally borne by the immediate family, and most often by the sons.

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