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Papeles de población
On-line version ISSN 2448-7147Print version ISSN 1405-7425
Abstract
MINOLDO, María Sol T. and PELAEZ, Enrique. The ageing challenges for the old age social protection. Reflecting from Latin America. Pap. poblac [online]. 2017, vol.23, n.93, pp.9-58. ISSN 2448-7147. https://doi.org/10.22185/24487147.2017.93.021.
Adequate and rigorous methodological tools to describe, quantify and understand ageing population is essential for knowing its challenges and being able to recommend relevant policies. That is why we propose to evaluate the rigor and robustness of the evidence with which we analyse the material impact of the age structure transformation, critically reviewing the indicator of demographic dependence (counterpart of the support ratio) and, especially, the economic dependence ratio. Next, we try to contribute to the design of suitable instruments to empirically address the problem of study. The work of analysis is based on the case of six countries, which are the six Latin American countries already present in the base of NTA: Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica.
Keywords : Ageing; sustainability; social security; support ratio.