Growing Old in an Older Brazil Implications of Population Ageing on Growth, Poverty, Public Finance, and Service Delivery Michele Gragnolati Ole Hagen Jorgensen Romero Rocha Anna Fruttero THE WORLD BANK Washington, D.C. Contents Foreword XV ...

Introduction and overview -- Population dynamics in Brazil -- Old-age social protection programs and the aging challenge -- Health and long-term care -- Education and productivity -- Public finance implications of population aging: 2005-50 -- Financing Brazil's aging population : implications...

This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights its specific features, including a very rapid...

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Research conforms that poor child growth outcomes in Guatemala are the result of widespread poverty. The better the parents' education and household income, the less likely children are to suffer from malnutrition. Children also fare better where community infrastructure (such as piped water and...

This paper investigates the extent to which the health systems of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo) have succeeded in providing financial protection against adverse health events. We examine disparities in health status, health care utilization...