Growing Old in an Older Brazil : Implications of Population Ageing on Growth, Poverty, Public Finance, and Service Delivery
This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights...
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | This chapter introduces the main issues
associated with population aging, many of which will be
investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next
section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil
has been experiencing and highlights its specific features,
including a very rapid population aging process in the next
few decades. Then the main economic framework behind this
work, the life cycle theory according to which
individuals' economic behavior varies according to
their age, is discussed. The section after that introduces
the first and second demographic dividends associated with
the changing population age structure that accompanies the
demographic transition of any country. Next covered is how
poverty is linked to the life cycle in Brazil and the role
of public transfers in reducing poverty among different age
groups, followed by an investigation of how public
expenditures vary across age groups and generations and what
makes Brazil distinct from comparable OECD (Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development) and Latin American
countries. Concluding the chapter are the main findings of
the report. |
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