ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes Ageing populations is a reality facing both developed and developing countries the world over. Countries with socialist histories such as China and Turkey to adapt their human resource management policies in order to effectively compete in a global economy. Developing countries, such as India, Botswana and South Africa, that nevertheless may have both first world and third world characteristics, once again face different obstacles to coping with the effect of ageing populations on the labour market. In South Africa and Botswana the HIV/AIDS pandemic and a deeply entrenched division between the formal sector and the informal sector in the labour market create obstacles unique to Africa. Governments can use a mixture of both carrot and stick mechanisms to ensure that employers abide by anti-discrimination legislation and to promote workplace diversity and the reintegration of the elderly into the workforce.
