This Global AgeWatch Policy Brief discusses the challenges older people face and their enabling roles in the current context of slow economic growth, uncertainty and rising unemployment. It highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to recognise their needs for secure livelihoods, and their rights to decent work and social protection.

Global AgeWatch Policy Brief 2: Global ageing – its implications for growth, decent work and social protection beyond 2015

This Global AgeWatch Policy Brief discusses the challenges older people face and their enabling roles in the current context of slow economic growth, uncertainty and rising unemployment. It highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to recognise their needs for secure livelihoods, and their rights to decent work and social protection.

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