ISBN:
9780821388020
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (336 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Directions in Development
Parallel Title:
Print version Growing Old in an Older Brazil : Implications of Population Aging on Growth, Poverty, Public Finance and Service Delivery
DDC:
305.260981
Keywords:
Older people -- Brazil
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Old age assistance -- Brazil
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Older people -- Economic aspects -- Brazil
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Aging -- Brazil
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Aging ; Brazil
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Old age assistance ; Brazil
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Older people ; Brazil
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Older people ; Economic aspects ; Brazil
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Key Findings; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Motivation for the Study; Demographic Change in Brazil; The Economic Life Cycle; The Economic Implications of Demographic Change; Poverty across the Life Cycle and the Role of Public Transfers; Characteristics of Public Expenditures across Generations and Age Groups; Cross-cutting Issues and Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Population Dynamics in Brazil; Trends in Mortality, Fertility, and Migration; Changes in Population Size and Age Structure
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Dependency Ratios, the Demographic Bonus, and the Demographic DividendsLabor Market; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Old Age Social Protection Programs and the Aging Challenge; Structure of Brazil's Social Protection System for the Elderly; Achieving the Pension System Objectives; Challenges to the Pension System of a Rapidly Aging Population; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Health Care and Long-Term Care; Health Care and Disease Patterns in Brazil; The Strategy to Address Chronic Health Care in Brazil; Long-Term Care; LTC Future Demand; Notes; References
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Chapter 5 Productivity and EducationThe Age-Productivity Profile; Opportunities to Improve Education and On-the-Job Training; Wage-Productivity Gap; Age, Productivity, and Wages: New Evidence from Brazilian Firms; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Public Finance Implications of Population Aging: 2005-50; Expenditures on Education, Health, and Social Protection in Brazil; The Public Sector: Age Structure and the Generosity of Public Benefits; Education; Pensions; Health Care; Overall Fiscal Impact of the Aging Population; Annex 6.1; Notes; References
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Chapter 7 Financing Brazil's Aging Population: Implications for Saving and GrowthAging, Saving, and Growth: The Empirical Evidence; Aging and Saving; Aging, Capital Accumulation, and Demographic Dividends; General Equilibrium Implications of Population Aging; Government Macro-Policy Responses: Three Scenarios; Heterogeneity in Economic Behavior; Annex 7.1: Private Saving Increases Cause Growth; Annex 7.2: The Partial Equilibrium Model; Annex 7.3: The General Equilibrium Model; Annex 7.4: The Reduced-Form General Equilibrium Model; Annex 7.5: Open-Economy Implications for Policy Scenarios
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NotesReferences; Index; Boxes; 1.1 National Transfer Accounts; 2.1 Source of Demographic Data; 3.1 World Bank Pension Conceptual Framework; 3.2 Pension Reforms; 5.1 Labor Market Informality in Brazil; 5.2 Workforce Characteristics, Productivity, and Wages; Figures; 1.1 The Speed of Population Aging; 1.2 Life Expectancy at Birth and Total Fertility Rate (TFR), 2005-10; 1.3 Years to Reduce Fertility (TFR) from 3 to 2 and Increase Life Expectancy from 50 to 70; 1.4 Brazil: A Century of Changes in the Population Age Structure, 1950-2050; 1.5 Brazil: Aging Index, 1980-2050
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1.6 Brazil: Total, Child, and Old-Age Dependency Ratio, 1950-2050
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