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Ageing and Poverty in Urban India
Old age problems are often compounded by illiteracy, poverty, age bias, informal employment and gender, besides inefficient welfare schemes. Urgent steps need to be taken to address the concerns.
Living Arrangements among the Elderly
The conventional living arrangements of the elderly in India has undergone a substantial change with declining fertility rates, increasing life expectancy and changing lifestyles. The cause and conseq...
Ageing and Intergenerational Transfer in India: A Household Perspective
Resource constraints and shifting priorities are impacting monetary transfers to the elderly. Hence, their economic security needs to be ensured through improved welfare schemes.
Pension Schemes across the World
Pension schemes followed in countries such as Japan, the United States, Norway, Denmark and Germany are essentially social insurance programmes, where contribution determines the pension emoluments po...
Is South Asia Prepared for Ageing Challenges?
With ageing population no longer being a feature unique to developed nations, India confronts problems of the elderly from myriad yet-to-be addressed perspectives.
The Ageing of Populations in Asia
With the Asian population ageing at a rapid rate and the youth no longer being able to substantively provide for the older segment, measures assuring the elderly of basic financial and healthcare prov...
विश्व के साथ कदम मिलाते हुएः भारत का ध्रुवीय विज्ञान अनुसंधान
समय के साथ ध्रुवीय सीमाओं की खोज में भारत की दृश्यता में सराहनीय प्रगति हुई है। भारत को अब व्यापक रूप से एक उभरती हुई शक्ति के रूप में देखा जा रहा है जो बहु विषयात्मक अंतर्राष्ट्रीय साझेदारियों की वार...
एनसीपीओआर-ध्रुवीय क्षेत्रों के लिए भारत का प्रवेश द्वार
प्रख्यात महासागर विज्ञानी और बहु आयामी वैज्ञानिक एम. रविचन्द्रन, निदेशक राष्ट्रीय ध्रुवीय और महासागर अनुसंधान केन्द्र, गोवा के साथ साक्षात्कार