After the Dividend:Caring for a Greying India

Debasis Barik, Tushar Agrawal and Sonalde Desai (sdesai@umd.edu)

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Abstract: As in any other society, in India too, the economic security of the aged is based on three main sources: their own income and savings, support from the extended family, particularly children, and support from the state. As India moves rapidly towards a demographic future in which the elderly form a large part of the population, this article examines trends in each of the three supports. While doing so it identifies the policy challenges and lists suggestions to deal with them.

Keywords: Ageing; remittance; Health; Income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 I31 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07-28, Revised 2015-06-02
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Published in Economic and Political Weekly 24.L(2015): pp. 108-112

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