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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781627803321

Titolo

Growing old in an older Brazil : : implications of population ageing on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery / / Michele Gragnolati ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington D.C. : , : World Bank, , [2011]

copyright 2011

ISBN

1-283-29265-3

9786613292650

0-8213-8803-7

Descrizione fisica

xxxii, 299 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm

Collana

Directions in development. Human development

Altri autori (Persone)

GragnolatiMichele <1968->

Disciplina

305.260981

Soggetti

Older people - Brazil

Old age assistance - Brazil

Older people - Economic aspects - Brazil

Aging - Brazil

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.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and overview -- Demographic change and labor market trends in Brazil -- The old-age social protection programs and the aging challenge -- Health and long-term care -- Education and productivity -- Public finance implications of population aging in Brazil : 2005-2050 -- Financing Brazil's aging population : implications for saving and growth.

Sommario/riassunto

Brazil is in the middle of a profound socioeconomic transformation driven by demographic change. Because of profound changes in mortality and, especially, fertility over the past four decades the population at older ages then begun to increase, a trend that will become more and more rapid as time progresses. While it took more than a century for France's population, aged 65 and above, to increase from 7 to 14 percent of the total population, the same demographic change will occur in the next two decades in Brazil (between 2011 and 2031). The elderly population will more than triple within the