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

• Pubblicazione: Washington D.C. : , : World Bank, , [2011]; copyright 2011
• Descrizione fisica: xxxii, 299 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Disciplina: 305.260981
• Soggetto topico: Older people - Brazil; Old age assistance - Brazil; Older people - Economic aspects - Brazil; Aging - Brazil
• Altri autori: GragnolatiMichele <1968->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Growing old in an older Brazil
• ISBN: 1-283-29265-3; 9786613292650; 0-8213-8803-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825859003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). . -Human development.; World Bank e-Library.