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  Post offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies.
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  Who will pay?: coping with aging societies, climate change, and other long-term fiscal challenges

  Finance and Development, IMF, 2003

  This article analyses the fiscal consequences of a series of demographic, climate, economic, security and technological changes that all countries in the world are experiencing nowadays.It argues that in this changing context governments will need to respond to growing demands for social services, heightened security needs, and unanticipated shocks, which will have serious fiscal implications.
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  Brief review of world basic demographic trends

  Global Social Change Research Project: Social, Economic and Political Change, 2003

  This review provides an outline of major world demographic characteristics and changes. Data is provided for more than 100 countries, and most cover time periods of 20 years or more.The results reported in the review are compared to findings and conclusions reported by other organizations, who use their own data sets.
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  Conference news: ageing, development and social protection

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002

  The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems.In Session One, participants considered the dynamics and challenges of population ageing in countries experiencing different development trajectories.
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  Age structural transition and economic growth: evidence from south and southeast Asia

  Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002

  This paper looks at the nature and process of age structural transition in the countries of South and Southeast Asia and its influence on economic growth.
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  Lifelong learning: a new momentum and a new opportunity for adult basic learning and education (ABLE) in the South

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This paper is the result of a study commissioned by Sida on the status and current trends in adult basic education in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The study included a review of relevant documentation in several languages, an electronic survey with key respondents throughout the world, personal interviews and a few field visits.
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  Impact of liberalisation on social security arrangements in India

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper addresses the impact of liberalisation on social security arrangements in India and measures the effect of opening up various sectors to private participation. It looks at the growth of informal economy after liberalisation and its effect on the individual and ageing populations.
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  Forgotten families: older people as carers of orphans and vulnerable children

  HelpAge International, 2003

  This report shows that - provided appropriate support is available - older people and orphans and vulnerable children can overcome some of the challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.The case studies featured in this report describe innovative ways of dealing with some of the difficulties faced by older-headed households.
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  Chronic poverty and older people in South Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This report includes a comprehensive review of existing research, both published and unpublished on the old in South Africa.
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  Non-contributory pensions and poverty prevention: a comparative study of Brazil and South Africa

  HelpAge International, 2003

  Pensions play a key role in old age support systems, but research and debate on pension policy has so far focused on contributory pension programmes.

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