Social policies for the elderly in the third world

This book introduces a problem-solving model to cross-national studies of social programs for the elderly in economically developing nations - the Third World, a term that is used here only as a designation of unspecified relatively lower levels of industrial and economic development. Current models of cross-national analysis tend to focus on theory testing and description; they fail to provide the practical information that indigenous policymakers need to decide whether another nation's policy, program, or provision is appropriate to their own country.