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Much of this book is concerned with countries which have had aging as a feature of their demographic profile for some years. Nepal, however, is one of the exceptions to this, not least because it is one of the poorest countries in the world; hence, aging has been the exception rather than the rule, until very recently. This chapter will draw heavily upon the work of Parker and Pant (2011), 2009) and is co-authored by Dr Sara Parker who has been working and researching in Nepal since the early 1990s.
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Cook, I.G., Halsall, J. (2012). Aging in Nepal. In: Aging in Comparative Perspective. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1978-5_7
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