Aging and economic growth in the Pacific Region / / edited by Akira Kohsaka

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.6/1091823
• Soggetto topico: Population aging - Pacific Area; Economic development - Pacific Area
• Altri autori: KohsakaAkira
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Akira Kohsaka -- Aging and potential economic growth in the Pacific Region / Akira Kohsaka -- Australia / Ross Guest and Tony Makin -- Japan / Takashi Oshio -- Hong Kong / Desmong K. C. Hou -- Indonesia / Miranda Goeltom and Solikin M. Juhro -- United States / Jeffrey B. Nugent and Guillaume Vandenbroucke.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Pacific region is in the final stage of the demographic transition with declining fertility and expanding life expectancy, where significant changes in population size and age distribution, i.e. ""aging"" have been and will be witnessed. They are unprecedented and going to affect economic growth in various ways. This book focuses on the Pacific region, one of the most rapidly aging regions, and examines the possible risk aspects. Particularly, the book takes into account of possible adjustments both endogenous and exogenous (including policy responses) to the new reality of agin
• Titolo autorizzato: Aging and economic growth in the Pacific Region
• ISBN: 1-135-12554-6; 0-203-07644-3; 1-283-89452-1; 1-135-12555-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810935603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; 109.