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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)

McKibbinWarwick

BatiniNicoletta

Soggetti

Demography - Econometric models

Population - Economic aspects - Econometric models

Aging - Economic aspects - Econometric models

Saving and investment - Econometric models

Capital movements - Econometric models

Demography

Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Investment

Capital

Intangible Capital

Capacity

Economics of the Elderly

Economics of the Handicapped

Non-labor Market Discrimination

Demographic Economics: General

Health: General

Population & demography

Population & migration geography

Health economics

Demographic change



Aging

Population and demographics

Population growth

Health

Demographic transition

Population

Population aging

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.