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The Philippines is “over-populated” not in relation to its natural carrying capacity but in relation to the performance of its economy and government. Clearly, it would be better to improve the performance of the government and the economy than to just get government involved in fertility...
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identify with its institutions? How about demography? Does it have a diachronic evolution? It seems that a gap between the two …
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The demand for institutional long-term care is likely to remain high in OECD countries, because of longer life expectancy and falling cohabitation rates of the elderly with family members. As shortages of qualified nurses put a cap on the supply of beds at nursing homes, excess demand builds....
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Contemporary demographic processes forcing increasing attention to the problems of relationships and dependencies between the different age groups. The ageing of the population in each society leads to changes in the contacts between young people, adults and the elderly. It is reasonable to...
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people living in debilitating poverty. How do the two coexist? The paradox of South Asia is that growth has been instrumental … in reducing poverty rates, but poverty rates have not fallen fast enough to reduce the total number of poor people, and …
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prosociality. Research has also shown that poverty and economic inequality are major risk factors for the development of problem … behaviors. The paper describes policies that can reduce poverty and benefit youth development. Although it is clear that the …
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Poverty though a universal phenomenon, is the worst challenge in the modern era, which is termed as the age of … information and technology. The present study was designed to estimate the incidence of poverty for the grade I employees of … Rawalpindi city. Determinants of poverty were explored by using Probit model, which was significant in the determination of the …
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India. Poverty estimates are derived under three scenarios—by applying the official cut-off point of the poverty line to … adjusted to household composition. Results show that an estimated 18 million elderly in India are living below the poverty line … incidence of poverty among elderly and non-elderly households in India. This is in contrast to the notion that elderly …
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