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consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from China, we examine how a new retirement program affects cognitive … performance. We find large negative effects of pension benefits on cognitive functioning among the elderly. We detect the most … that the program leads to larger negative impacts among women. We demonstrate that retirement and access to a retirement …
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Almost all developing countries are now experiencing demographic ageing. This paper examines the consequences of ageing for the poor. It assesses the extent to which the poor are participating in demographic ageing, or whether the process is largely restricted to relatively privileged groups....
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A key way for the world's poor - nearly half of humanity - to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of … to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard but working poor. Two key policy planks in the fight against … poverty should be: raising the returns to self-employment and creating more opportunities to move from selfemployment into …
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A key way for the world's poor - nearly half of humanity - to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of … to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard but working poor. Two key policy planks in the fight against … poverty should be: raising the returns to self-employment and creating more opportunities to move from selfemployment into …
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the aim of boosting workers' earnings and reducing poverty. Programs vary in design, which can affect their impact on …
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