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Record Nr.

UNINA9910383825503321

Autore

Mo Long

Titolo

China’s Demographic Dilemma and Potential Solutions : Population Aging and Population Control / / by Long Mo, Yuhong Wei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

981-10-1491-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path, , 2363-6866

Disciplina

304.60951

Soggetti

Demography

Social groups

Family

Population

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Population Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Economic Pressure of Population Aging and its Adjustments in China -- The Relationship between Population Aging and Fertility Policies in China -- Three -Constraints of Aging on China’s Population Development Strategy and Countermeasures.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a quantitative assessment of the challenges China faces as it tries to achieve the twin goals of mitigating the effects of population aging while containing the overall size of the population. After a close examination of the impact of China’s fertility policies on the country’s population structure and size, the author presents empirical evidence for the effectiveness of finely calibrated easing of the country’s decades-long birth control policies for both of these objectives. This research uses an innovative quantitative indicator—the Aging and Economic Coordination Index (AECI)—to measure the macroeconomic pressure population aging places on the country. This is the first time the AECI has been systematically applied to gauge the magnitude and the trends of that pressure for the 1980–2050 period, and to provide the basis for policy suggestions about what might be done to ease that



pressure.