Aging and Poverty in Africa and the Role of Social Pensions

In many low income African countries, three factors are placing an undue burden on the elderly: 1) the burden on the elderly has enormously increased with the increase in mortality of prime age adults due to the HIV-AIDS pandemic and regional confl...

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Main Author: Subbarao, Kalanidhi
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6240109/aging-poverty-africa-role-social-pensions
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11785

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