hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …

This paper surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and older people in … over the past two decades in most countries. Although there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, the old are …