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Armanda Barrientos looks at how providing direct financial support to older people in developing countries can reduce poverty and further development.TRANSCRIPT
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Transfers to older people in developing countries reduce poverty and support
growth and development
Armando Barrientos, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of ManchesterWith thanks to HelpAge
International and Katherine Vincent
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By 2050, for every
10
Europeans aged 60 and over there will be
9.2
Africans, 8.2
Latin Americans, and
55
Asians in the same age group*
*UN Population Division
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BangladeshRic/IDOP/2003
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OECD countries address poverty and vulnerability through public transfers
to older
people and their families
In middle income
countries public transfers
fail to cover poor households
In low income
countries old age public transfers are scarce
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Direct public transfers as a proportion of GDP 1971-1997
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
Latin America andthe Caribbean
North America
Western Europe
% of GDP
Transfers to organisations and households
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Can social pensions work in low income developing countries?
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Do they reduce poverty and vulnerability?
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How can they support growth and development?
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Lesotho
is one of the poorest countries in Southern Africa
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In 2004 a social pension was introduced, it pays US$ 24 transfer a month
to all aged 70 and over
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Because older people in developing countries live with their extended family, the social
pension is in fact a household transfer
paid through the older person’
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Katherine Vincent/2007Lesotho
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Pension day is also market day
In cash-strapped communities in Lesotho, transfers encourage production and trade
Katherine Vincent/2007
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Helena Legido-Quigley/2002
In neighbouring South Africa, old age transfers are a leading poverty reduction programme
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Following the privatisation of utilities in the 1990s, Bolivia established a fund supporting a transfer to all aged 65 and over, called BONOSOL.
The transfer is around US$ 250
paid once a year on the
birthday
of the beneficiary
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Bolivian pensioner receiving his BONOSOL
Tom Weller/HAI/2006
In rural areas of Bolivia, many farmers have land but no cash to buy seeds and tools
A study showed the rise in consumption among pensioner households was twice the amount transferred
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In Zambia, the incidence of poverty and HIV/Aids are high
…leaving grandparents
to care for grandchildren
A scheme piloted a transfer of US$ 10 a month to labour scarce households
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Mr. Motu is one of the beneficiaries
He and his wife live here
He saved 3 months of transfers to pay for an operation to remove his wife’s cataracts
A 12 year old grandchild lives here
…who now attends school and helps with the family plot
Armando Barrientos/2005
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The capacity of public agencies is very limited, so a village committee manages the transfer scheme
Armando Barrientos/2005
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In Bangladesh, a US$2 transfer
a month is paid to the 20 oldest and poorest in each district
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Registration is important
Her pension book records the transfers received
and protects against corruption
Leila Amanpour/HAI/2006
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Sawang Kaewkantha/HAI/2004
There is no ‘retirement’ in developing countries
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According to ILO estimates, financing a social pension would require less than 1 percent of GDP in low
income countries
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If well designed, social pensions can–
reduce poverty and vulnerabilityamong older persons an their households, especially those
affected by HIV/Aids and migration –
and contribute to production, trade, and growth
in
poor communities