Author: Jianfa ShenPublisher:
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Category : Fertility, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Population Growth, Fertility Decline, and Ageing in Hong Kong
Author: Jianfa ShenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fertility, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Hong Kong Population
Author: Hong Kong. Census and Statistics DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Hong Kong
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Author: Mr.Lamin LeighPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451863470
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Hong Kong SAR's population is aging rapidly. This paper concludes that, without a change in policies, aging could adversely affect growth and living standards. While higher labor productivity growth and increased migration of younger skilled workers from the Chinese mainland, would attenuate the economic impact of aging, they would not offset it fully. Aging will also put pressure on public finances, particularly as a result of rising health care costs. There is a relatively narrow window of opportunity to implement policies to lessen the impact of aging, given that the demographic effects could start setting in as early as 2015 when the working population's support ratio peaks. In recent years, the Hong Kong SAR authorities have been focusing on policies that could help limit the fiscal impact of aging, including continued expenditure restraint on non-age-sensitive areas, reform of health care financing (including introducing private health insurance system), and tax reforms.
Implications of the Aging of China's Population
Author: Judith BanisterPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
Author: Paulin StraughanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134032102
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book brings together work on the low fertility countries of East Asia with an analysis of trends in fertility, what we know about their determinants and consequences, the policy issues and how these are being addressed in the various countries.
China's Low Birth Rate and the Development of Population
Author: Guo ZhigangPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135161293X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
As the most populous country in the world, China’s demographic challenges have always been too many people for ecological system, resources, and the environment. However, by the early 1990s, fertility rate in China had dropped below the replacement level, and China’s low fertility has now attracted the world’s attention. This book is among the first studies to raise and examine questions on low fertility in China, believing that China has entered a new era featured by low birth rate and ageing population. Utilizing advanced research methods and models on low fertility to analyze China’s census data, this book explores the issues from various perspectives. Methodologies employed in past population studies, policy making concerning fertility rate, underreporting of births and fertility rate estimates, fertility level of the migrant population, current population pattern, long-term population trends, population dynamics, and many other thought-provoking problems are covered. Finally, the book revisits China’s population issues in the context of globalization. The 21st century has seen the new challenge of persistent population decrease and ageing worldwide, which, along with economic globalization, demands a new understanding of the changes in population pattern and their consequences. Researchers and students in China’s demographic and social studies will be attracted by the insightful analysis and rich materials provided in the book. Population policy makers will also benefit from it.
Transition and Challenge
Author: Zhongwei ZhaoPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199299293
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. This book examines these changes and also looks at how China's population has altered the global landscape.
Aging and Economic Growth in the Pacific Region
Author: Akira KohsakaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135125546
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
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 aging population. It also assesses their quantitative influences on the growth impact of aging population, which might be very different from those in the past experience. The book highlights the doubts on the steadiness across periods and similarities across economies of parameters relevant to labor market participation, saving and investment of private sectors, and productivity growth, which a bulk of prior studies were crucially based on. Policy measures to enhance labor supply, domestic savings and productivity have been scrutinized. The book discusses the policy alternatives in practice and their implementations and/or planning of each category across regional economies.
Demographic Transition in China
Author: Xizhe PengPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book documents and analyses fertility and demographic trends in China since the early 1950s, focusing particularly on previously undocumented provincial and rural-urban diversities; it also analyses China's current reform on population control together with future developments. Previous investigations of fertility transitions in the People's Republic of China have almost all been carried out at a national level. The author of this book, however, is a Chinese citizen and has had access to local data not available to foreigner researchers. This study will be of interest to demographers, scholars in population studies and Chinese studies.
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