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    Poverty, vulnerabiity and inequality in Uganda

    Expanding Social Protection Programme, Uganda, 2016
    According to existing survey analysis, Uganda has made steady progress in poverty reduction over the past decade. However, these gains have not been experienced evenly, with large disparities in poverty levels across geographic areas and household characteristics.
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    Global AgeWatch Index 2015: insight report

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The Global AgeWatch Index assesses the factors determining the social and economic wellbeing of older people around the world. As well as global analysis, this year the Index is focusing on the regions, hearing from older people themselves and looking at the widely varying geographic trends. It also includes data on ageing in the BRICS countries.
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    We can also make change: piloting participatory research with persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The aim of the research presented in this report was to understand better the experiences of social, political and economic exclusion of persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh from their own perspectives. Although the facts of exclusion are widely documented, the reality of it is less well understood.
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    Facing the facts: the truth about ageing and development

    Age International, 2015
    The number of people in the world has doubled since 1970, and will grow further, from 7 to 10 billion, by 2050. But less well-known is the fact that the world is ageing as well as growing. There are currently 868 million older people in the world, and by 2050 this number will have reached more than 2 billion – 21 per cent of the world’s population.
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    Making youth employment policies work

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015
    Government policy and public investment in Kenya has focused disproportionately on formal private sector development and on education that is geared to urban wage employment as a solution to youth unemployment. A closer look at the figures, however, reveals that underemployment, especially in rural areas, is the greater challenge.
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    Health in an ageing world - what do we know?

    The Lancet, 2015
    The ageing of populations is poised to become the next global public health challenge. During the next 5 years, for the first time in history, people aged 65 years and older in the world will outnumber children aged younger than 5 years.
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    Including people with disabilities in emergency relief efforts

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    More must be done to ensure the needs and rights of people with disabilities are fully recognised in disaster risk reduction and emergency responses.
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    The Chilean system of contributory pensions as locus of rivalry and of a new social compact

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    In a context of rising life expectancy and the promotion of higher fertility through care policies, pension improvements must be consistent with improvements in economic productivity, with the increase in contribution densities as a result of better working careers, and the reduction of contributory evasion.
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    Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2010
    Using the example of old age poverty in the Indian city of Chennai, formerly Madras, this research situates old age poverty and inter-generational relations within a multi-level framework that ranges from global economic forces to household resource allocation, taking in government policy, public discourse and gender and age discrimination.
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    Ageing, well-being and development: A comparative study of Brazil and South Africa

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2011
    Brazil and South Africa represent different models of social policies for addressing ageing. Their success in promoting the well-being of older people in disadvantaged settings shows that there is no single “best practice” approach.

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