UID:
edoccha_9958070839402883
Format:
xxxii, 299 pages :
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illustrations ;
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23 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-29265-3
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9786613292650
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0-8213-8803-7
Series Statement:
Directions in development. Human development
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-8802-9
Language:
English
