Globally, social protection schemes are considered as effective tools in ensuring the well-being of the poor, dis-empowered and otherwise marginalized people of society. It is applicable in cases of elderly people who are comparatively vulnerable due to their old age, and at times poverty or the...

Demographics in Malaysia and Viet Nam are evolving rapidly, potentially disrupting traditional family support to older people. We estimate a set of Poisson random effects models with panel data from the Malaysia Ageing and Retirement Survey and the Viet Nam Aging Survey to analyze how living...