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This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights its specific features, including a very rapid...
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inclusive Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Modest investment rates despite attractive returns and low savings rates despite … environment is estimated at 3.5 percent. In light of South Africa's low national savings, the reemergence of high current account … inclusive growth, with special emphasis on the issues of savings and investment …
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Domestic savings in Turkey declined significantly in the 2000s. The domestic savings rate declined from an average of … most of the period. A strong fiscal adjustment underpinned the improvement in public savings in the post-2001 period. The … will be vital for sustainable growth. The fall in private savings after 2001 was mostly a result of the decline in …
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This report on poverty assessment in Sri Lanka establishes that the development story in Sri Lanka is one of mixed success. The country is on par with middle income countries and Millennium Development Goal timetables for universal primary school enrollment, gender parity in primary and...
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Sri Lanka is now a middle income country and already at the advanced stages of aging and disease transitions. This report aims to stimulate policy dialogue for control and prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and to improve the quality of NCD services to the people of Sri Lanka. It...
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"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … migration decision has been taken, savings can increase as a function of violence to ensure a minimum bundle to carry. Empirical …
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