Population aging [[electronic resource] ] : is Latin America ready? / / edited by Daniel Cotlear

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458215103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2011
• ISBN: 1-282-96644-8; 9786612966446; 0-8213-8469-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 p.)
• Collana: Directions in development. Human development
• Altri autori (Persone): CotlearD (Daniel)
• Disciplina: 305.26098
• Soggetti: Older people - Caribbean Area - Economic conditions; Older people - Latin America - Economic conditions; Population aging - Economic aspects - Caribbean Area; Population aging - Economic aspects - Latin America; Population aging - Health aspects - Caribbean Area; Population aging - Health aspects - Latin America; Population aging - Social aspects - Caribbean Area; Population aging - Social aspects - Latin America; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 - Population Aging: Is Latin America Ready?; Chapter 2 - Demographic Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean; Chapter 3 - Poverty, the Aging, and the Life Cycle in Latin America; Chapter 4 - How Age Influences the Demand for Health Care in Latin America; Chapter 5 - The Economics of Happiness and Health Policy: How Health Norms Vary across Cohorts in Latin America; Chapter 6 - Who Benefits from Public Transfers? Incidence across Income Groups and across Generations in Brazil and ChileChapter 7 - The Fiscal Impact of Demographic Change in Ten Latin American Countries: Projecting Public Expenditures in Education, Health, and ; Pensions; Index; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Latin America and the Caribbean will soon face the challenges of an aging population. This process, which took over a century in the rich world, will occur in two or three decades in the developing world; seven of the 25 countries that will age more rapidly are in LAC. Population aging will pose challenges and offer opportunities. This book explores three sets of issues. First is a group of issues related to the support of the aging and poverty in the life cycle. This covers questions of work and retirement, income and wealth, and living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. It also ex