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Increasing consumption, decreasing support: a multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars
No full textThis article looks at intergenerational relations in two Chakkliyar neighbourhoods in rural Tamil Nadu. Post-1991 economic changes, together with longer-term changes in the rural economy and state policies, have significantly widened the customary ‘needs gap’ between younger and older generations by expanding the needs and aspirations of younger generations both absolutely and in comparison to the perceived needs of older people, whilst not providing them with the means to meet those needs. The declining demand for agricultural labour has not only constrained sons’ capacities to meet the needs of both their conjugal and natal families, but also severely undermined older people's livelihoods as they compete with younger people for agricultural work. The cause of the elderly Chakkliyars’ tenuous subsistence lies not with negligent sons but with the way their vulnerabilities are built into the structure of the economy, society and polity
Aging, work and the demographic dividend in South Asia
No full textMuch current interest in South Asia's population structure focuses on 'the working generation' (aged 15-60) and particularly on the 'youth' who could potentially deliver a 'demographic dividend', thereby solving the conundrum of population ageing in developing economies. In contrast to this idea and the related one underlying a wide range of development strategies, that reductions of poverty at younger ages will have a meaningful impact on poverty in old age, this paper will demonstrate, first, that older people’s paid and unpaid work is needed to realise the demographic dividend, second, that older people already play an important role in reducing family poverty and sustaining national economies and, third, that only age-specific policies can address poverty in old age
On the Universal Solvability of Classical Boundary-Value Problems of Potential Theory: a Contribution from Geodesy
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No full textAlgunas fotos no indican autoría. El resto firmadas por Información Gráfica F. Sierra (Oviedo), y Foto Sanso (Avilés)Contiene fotografías pertenecientes al archivo fotográfico del diario "Región", publicadas entre 1972 y 198
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