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Old-age poverty is to become one of the most pressing issues in the coming decades given the demographic trends … fight against all forms of poverty (SDG 1), through shocks on consumption and production patterns within countries … instrument to fight old-age poverty. A new comprehensive global data set of 185 countries over the 1960-2012 period on the …
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The association between disability and poverty has been noted intuitively, although there is little systematic evidence … disability and poverty in developing countries by using a unique data set, the World Health Survey, which has comparable measures … associated with higher multidimensional poverty in most of the developing countries under study. At the individual level, in most …
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Social Security reform is high on the agenda of many governments around the world. In thinking about gender and social security policy it is useful to consider the implications of work in feminist economics for the evaluation of existing policies and proposed reforms. This paper identifies six...
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Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
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"As the boundaries between nations become more permeable, women are increasingly on the move, travelling from poor …
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In many policy areas it is essential to use the best estimates of life expectancy, but such estimates are vital to most areas of pension policy - from indexed access age and the calculation of initial benefits to the financial sustainability of pension schemes and the operation of their...
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How the affluent nations of the world could eradicate pensioner poverty within their national borders and increase …
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changes in elderly poverty and income inequality?*** The present study examines the current state of knowledge with regard to … these relationships. The study is divided into four parts: 1) an overview of data indicating that elderly poverty began to … suggests definedcontribution accounts will adversely impact elderly poverty and income inequality; 3) a review of confounding …
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