Saturday, January 22, 2011

GAP - Index to assess preparedness on global aging


RICHARD JACKSON, NEIL HOWE, KEISUKE NAKASHIMA, fellows at the Global Aging Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) state that the global economic crisis has left many elders vulnerable while reducing the room for governments to accommodate rising old-age dependency costs. In a CSIS analysis, "The Global Aging Preparedness Index", they analyze the progress that twenty countries worldwide are making in preparing for global aging, and particularly the old-age dependency dimension of the challenge and state that extending work lives and increasing funded retirement savings represented the easiest solutions to implement that balanced the needs of the elderly and the younger workforce.

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