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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821804203321

Autore

Callen Tim

Titolo

The Global Impact of Demographic Change / / Tim Callen, Warwick McKibbin, Nicoletta Batini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-6091-2

1-4527-5217-6

1-283-51819-8

1-4519-0805-9

9786613830647

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

BatiniNicoletta

McKibbinWarwick

Soggetti

Demography - Econometric models

Population - Economic aspects - Econometric models

Aging - Economic aspects - Econometric models

Saving and investment - Econometric models

Capital movements - Econometric models

Aging

Capacity

Capital

Demographic change

Demographic Economics: General

Demographic transition

Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

Demography

Economics of the Elderly

Economics of the Handicapped

Health economics

Health

Health: General

Intangible Capital

International Investment

Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Non-labor Market Discrimination

Population & demography



Population & migration geography

Population aging

Population and demographics

Population growth

Population

Saving

Wealth

Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2006."

"McKibbin's research in this paper was supported by the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Japanese Cabinet Office International Collaborations Project through the Brookings Institution and was prepared as background material for the September 2004 World Economic Outlook."--Title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. SOME BACKGROUND ON GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE""; ""III. MODELING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE""; ""IV. HOW WILL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AFFECT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY?""; ""V. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""Appendix: The Analytical Approach""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over the next 80 years for Japan, the United States, other industrial countries, and the developing regions of the world using a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium four-country model containing demographics calibrated to the "medium variant" of the United Nations population projections. We find that population aging in industrial countries will reduce aggregate growth in these regions over time, but should boost growth in developing countries over the next 20-30 years, as the relative size of their workingage populations increases. Demographic change will also affect saving, investment, and capital flows, implying changes in global trade balances and asset prices. We also explore the sensitivity of the results to assumptions about future productivity growth and country external risk for the developing country region.