When We`re Sixty-Four: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America, Ignacio Apella, Rafael Rofman

Автор: Ignacio Apella, Rafael Rofman
Название: When We`re Sixty-Four: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America
ISBN: 1464816050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464816055
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Описание: Latin American countries are going through a demographic transition and, consequently, a population aging process. This implies a relative decline in the number of children and an increase in older adults in the next few decades, until the population structure begins to stabilize. Population aging is the result of a slow but sustained reduction in mortality, which implies an increase in life expectancy and fertility. These two trends clearly reflect long-term improvements in welfare and in economic and social development. As such, they should be widely welcomed. However, this process also entails policy challenges: many public institutions--including education, health, and pension systems and labor market regulations--are designed for a different demographic context, and they need to be adapted in order to be effective in the new scenario. Population aging implies two different challenges for public policies. On one hand, older populations demand more fiscal resources for social services such as health, long-term care, and pensions. On the other hand, this process produces shifts in the proportion of the population at working ages, which may affect long-term economic growth.Aging societies risk losing dynamism, being exposed to higher dependency rates, and experiencing lower saving rates. Nonetheless, in the interim, Latin American countries have a demographic opportunity: a temporary decline in dependency rates, opening a period during which the share of the working-age population, with its associated saving capacity, is at its highest levels. This constitutes a great opportunity in the short term, because the higher savings may result in increases in the capital endowment per worker and productivity. For this to happen, it is necessary to generate institutional, financial, and fiscal conditions that promote larger savings and investment, thereby accelerating per capita GDP growth in a sustainable way.

Автор: Peter McDonough, Amaury DeSouza
Название: The Politics of Population in Brazil: Elite Ambivalence and Public Demand
ISBN: 0292741405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741409
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Описание: This book examines the attitudes toward population planning of Brazilian government officials and other elites-bishops, politicians, labor leaders, and business owners-in comparison with mass public opinion.

Название: Latin America and the Caribbean Demographic Observatory 2018 (English/Spanish Edition): International Migration
ISBN: 9211220033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211220032
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Описание: Provides immigration tables for 19 Latin American countries for which data were available on the population censuses of the 2000 and 2010 decades. Information is compiled on the structure of the immigrant population by sex, age, years of schooling and participation in economic activity, according to census data.

Автор: Workshop on Demographic Change and Socia
Название: Population Aging: Is Latin America Ready?
ISBN: 0821384872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821384879
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Описание: Latin America and the Caribbean will soon face the challenges of an aging population. This provides an introduction to the concepts and techniques at the intersection of demography and economics. It summarizes the policy debate about potential reforms needed to make population aging an opportunity for development.

Автор: Toledo Manrique Alejandro
Название: The Shared Society: A Vision for the Global Future of Latin America
ISBN: 0804795517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804795517
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Latin America has gone through a major transformation in the past two decades. According to the United Nations, with the discovery of new oil and mineral deposits and increases in energy exports, manufacturing and tourism, Latin America's economic growth and development will only continue, foreign investment will increase, and the region's global influence will become greater and greater.

This is an historic opportunity for Latin America. Yet, as Stanford economist and former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo points out in his new book, The Shared Society, social strife threatens to undermine its recent economic and political progress. The specter of unsustainable growth and greed threatens to compromise the environment. Economic growth rates could slow and democracy could deteriorate into familiar forms of authoritarian populism.

In The Shared Society, Toledo, whose tenure as president of Peru helped spur its economic renaissance, develops a plan for a future Latin America in which its population is not only much better off economically than today, but in which the vast 40 percent of Latin America's poor and marginalized are incorporated into a rising middle class, democratic institutions work more effectively, and the extraordinary ecosystem of Latin America is preserved. This is Toledo's vision for a just, sustainable, and prosperous shared society.

To achieve this, Toledo lays out a set of principles and concrete, implementable ideas with which Latin Americans can reinvent themselves as a leading force for change in a continuously globalizing society beset by inequalities and global problems such as climate change and shortages of clean drinkable water, food security, human rights violations and weak democratic institutions. Toledo argues that only extraordinary efforts of vision, determination, courage and inspired leadership will set Latin America on the path to inclusive development, and this book provides a visionary manifesto and blueprint for creating that ideal shared society.