IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijbexc/v7y2014i4p499-514.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Aging in India: myth or reality?

Author

Listed:
  • Bipul Malakar
  • Shrabanti Maity

Abstract

The phenomenon of population ageing is becoming a major concern for policy makers all over the world, for both developed and developing countries, during last two decades. Ageing of population is affected due to downward trends in fertility and mortality. In India, size of elderly population is fast growing. In 2001, it constituted 7.4% of the total population. According to experts, it will become 12.6% by 2025. So, ageing problem is at its beginning in India. For a developing country like India this may pose mounting pressure on various socio-economic fronts like pension outlays, healthcare expenditures, etc. there is an emerging need to pay greater attention to ageing related issues. In this paper, the authors discussed about the socio-economic effects of ageing problems in India. For this purpose, the authors have used census data for analysis. Finally, on the basis of their discussion the authors have suggested some policy prescriptions.

Suggested Citation

  • Bipul Malakar & Shrabanti Maity, 2014. "Aging in India: myth or reality?," International Journal of Business Excellence, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(4), pages 499-514.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbexc:v:7:y:2014:i:4:p:499-514
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=63563
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijbexc:v:7:y:2014:i:4:p:499-514. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=291 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.