Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa
Demography affects our daily lives. Consciously or not, we take into account the demographic context when making choices on employment, savings, health, and education. This report studies how demographic change is likely to affect demand for social...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26529334/forever-young-social-policies-changing-population-southern-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24996 |
| id |
okr-10986-24996 |
|---|---|
| recordtype |
oai_dc |
| spelling |
okr-10986-249962021-05-25T08:51:18Z Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa Bruni, Lucilla Maria Rigolini, Jamele Troiano, Sara demographics demographic dividend intergenerational poverty economic growth poverty reduction youth employment jobs social spending education early childhood development malnutrition HIV non-communicable diseases social assistance targeting adolescents fiscal policy Demography affects our daily lives. Consciously or not, we take into account the demographic context when making choices on employment, savings, health, and education. This report studies how demographic change is likely to affect demand for social services in Southern Africa and how today’s policies can be shaped to reap potential benefits from demographic dynamics and address the population’s evolving needs. The authors define the social sectors as education, health, and social assistance and social policies as policies related to these three sectors. The study illustrates how social policies designed to fit with evolving demographic structures are likely to lead to wealthier and more productive future generations, fostering growth and equity. But the reverse also holds: ill-tailored social policies can hold back countries’ development and heighten intergenerational tensions. The rest of this report is structured as follows. Chapter two presents evidence on demographic trends in Southern Africa. Chapter three explains the report’s conceptual framework and how demography can be an opportunity or a curse, depending on the policy environment. Chapter four studies the five countries’ labor markets and documents challenges that a growing active labor force is likely to generate. Chapter five looks at the likely impacts of changing demographics on social sectors. It shows how a dependency ratio that will remain relatively low for decades to come will provide the opportunity to redirect social spending towards emerging priorities, and identifies which of these priorities will be in education, health, and social assistance. Chapter six concludes the study by discussing immediate policy implications. 2016-09-01T16:51:26Z 2016-09-01T16:51:26Z 2016-06-26 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26529334/forever-young-social-policies-changing-population-southern-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24996 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Social Analysis Africa Sub-Saharan Africa |
| repository_type |
Digital Repository |
| institution_category |
Foreign Institution |
| institution |
Digital Repositories |
| building |
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository |
| collection |
World Bank |
| language |
English en_US |
| topic |
demographics demographic dividend intergenerational poverty economic growth poverty reduction youth employment jobs social spending education early childhood development malnutrition HIV non-communicable diseases social assistance targeting adolescents fiscal policy |
| spellingShingle |
demographics demographic dividend intergenerational poverty economic growth poverty reduction youth employment jobs social spending education early childhood development malnutrition HIV non-communicable diseases social assistance targeting adolescents fiscal policy Bruni, Lucilla Maria Rigolini, Jamele Troiano, Sara Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa |
| geographic_facet |
Africa Sub-Saharan Africa |
| description |
Demography affects our daily lives.
Consciously or not, we take into account the demographic
context when making choices on employment, savings, health,
and education. This report studies how demographic change is
likely to affect demand for social services in Southern
Africa and how today’s policies can be shaped to reap
potential benefits from demographic dynamics and address the
population’s evolving needs. The authors define the social
sectors as education, health, and social assistance and
social policies as policies related to these three sectors.
The study illustrates how social policies designed to fit
with evolving demographic structures are likely to lead to
wealthier and more productive future generations, fostering
growth and equity. But the reverse also holds: ill-tailored
social policies can hold back countries’ development and
heighten intergenerational tensions. The rest of this report
is structured as follows. Chapter two presents evidence on
demographic trends in Southern Africa. Chapter three
explains the report’s conceptual framework and how
demography can be an opportunity or a curse, depending on
the policy environment. Chapter four studies the five
countries’ labor markets and documents challenges that a
growing active labor force is likely to generate. Chapter
five looks at the likely impacts of changing demographics on
social sectors. It shows how a dependency ratio that will
remain relatively low for decades to come will provide the
opportunity to redirect social spending towards emerging
priorities, and identifies which of these priorities will be
in education, health, and social assistance. Chapter six
concludes the study by discussing immediate policy implications. |
| format |
Report |
| author |
Bruni, Lucilla Maria Rigolini, Jamele Troiano, Sara |
| author_facet |
Bruni, Lucilla Maria Rigolini, Jamele Troiano, Sara |
| author_sort |
Bruni, Lucilla Maria |
| title |
Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa |
| title_short |
Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa |
| title_full |
Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa |
| title_fullStr |
Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Forever Young? : Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa |
| title_sort |
forever young? : social policies for a changing population in southern africa |
| publisher |
World Bank, Washington, DC |
| publishDate |
2016 |
| url |
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26529334/forever-young-social-policies-changing-population-southern-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24996 |
| _version_ |
1764458109505372160 |