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The Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Eastern Caribbean

World Bank - 2012

The purpose of this report is to examine and propose options for policy design and implementation, based on a situational analysis for six Eastern Caribbean countries and a review of the lessons of other nations in prevention and control. A committed partner of the Organization of Eastern...

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Taxing tobacco in Georgia : welfare and distributional gains of smoking cessation

Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan; González Icaza, María Fernanda - 2020

This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...

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Overview on Heterogeneity in Longevity and Pension Schemes

Lee, Ron - 2019

Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened in recent decades. In the United States, the differences may now be as large as ten to fourteen years. These longevity gaps strongly affect the actuarial fairness and progressivity of many...

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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …

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The interplay of policy, institutions, and culture in the time of Covid-19

Fang, Sheng; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yi, Yuanyuan - 2020

This paper examines cross-country evidence of how the Covid-19 pandemic spread and the mortality rates associated with … pollution) increase the spread of the pandemic and/or the mortality rate. On average, the government policy delay in mobility … pandemic mortality. Individualistic culture and general trust amplify the positive links between pandemic mortality and the …

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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities

Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019

A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...

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Options for Aged Care in China : Building an Efficient and Sustainable Aged Care System

Glinskaya, Elena - 2009

China is aging at an unprecedented rate. Improvements in life expectancy and the consequences of the decades-old family planning policy have led to a rapid increase in the elderly population. According to the United Nations World Population Prospects, the proportion of older people age 65 and...

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Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era : Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay

Apella, Ignacio - 2020

Uruguay faces medium- and long-term challenges associated with two global megatrends: population aging and technological change. These two megatrends have been developing for some time, but policy responses have been late or inadequate in many cases. Trying to delay them--by promoting higher...

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Who is Poorer? : Poverty by Age in the Developing World

Evans, Brooks - 2015

This note shows that based on headcount poverty rates, at the household level, households with elderly members are roughly equally poor to non-elderly households, though with variation when using more detailed compositions, and the elderly are less poor than children in 98 percent of the...

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Thailand Economic Monitor, June 2016 : Aging Society and Economy

Ariyapruchya, Kiatipong - 2016

The Thai economy shows signs of a nascent recovery but faces challenges on the path toward a broad-based and sustained recovery. The Thai economy accelerated to 2.8 percent in 2015, compared to 0.9 percent in 2014, partly on the basis of government consumption and investment, and partly on...

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