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Implications for Savings of Aging in the Asian ""Tigers""

Symansky, Steven A. - 1997

Significant aging is projected for many high-saving emerging economies of East and Southeast Asia. By 2025, the share of the elderly in their populations will at least double in most of these countries. The share of the young will fall. Aging populations could adversely affect saving rates in...

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Aging in the Asian ""Tigers"" : Challenges for Fiscal Policy

Heller, Peter S. - 1997

The paper assesses the government expenditure effects from changing demographics in the Asian “Tiger” economies through 2050. With some exceptions, their limited social insurance commitments initially suggest that aging populations may not adversely affect fiscal balances. Yet for all the...

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Effects of Long-Run Demographic Changes in a Multi-Country Model

Masson, Paul R. - 1991

The macroeconomic effects of population aging are explored using data for the G-7 countries and Australia. The link between changes in birth and mortality rates on the one hand, and dependency ratios on the other, is first discussed, then empirical evidence on the effects of dependency ratios on...

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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and the Federal Budget

International Monetary Fund - 1990

This paper considers the implications of the prospective aging of the U.S. population for the social security system and concludes that the large and growing cashflow surpluses of the social security trust funds should be saved to help insulate living stands against this change. A number of...

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Recession and policy transmission to Latin American tourism : does expanded travel to Cuba offset crisis spillovers?

Romeu, Rafael; Wolfe, Andy - 2011

This study measures the impact of changing economic conditions in OECD countries on tourist arrivals to countries/destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. A model of utility maximization across labor, consumption of goods and services at home, and consumption of tourism services across...

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Revisiting the potential impact to the rest of the Caribbean from opening US-Cuba tourism

Acevedo, Sebastian; Alleyne, Trevor; Romeu, Rafael - 2017

The Cuban revolution and the subsequent US embargo on Cuba helped shape the tourism sector in the Caribbean … towards a change in US travel policy to Cuba is understandable, but likely unwarranted. The history of tourism in the region … that liberalizing US-Cuba tourism could result in US arrivals to Cuba of between 3 and 5.6 million, most of it coming from …

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Recession and Policy Transmission to Latin American tourism : Does Expanded Travel to Cuba offset Crisis Spillovers?

Wolfe, Andrew M. - 2011

easing of restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, supported a small (countercyclical) boost to Cuba’s arrivals of U.S. non …-family travel, as well as a pre-existing surge in family travel (of Cuban origin). Despite the US becoming Cuba’s second highest …

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The Fall and Recovery of the Cuban Economy in the 1990's : Mirage or Reality?

Hernández-Catá, Ernesto - 2001

The collapse of the Cuban economy following the cessation of Soviet assistance gave way to a strong recovery in 1994-96. There are three possible explanations for this recovery: (i) that it never took place; (ii) that it reflected a surge in productivity resulting from stabilization and...

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Korea's growth prospects : overcoming demographics and COVID-19

Swiston, Andrew - 2021

Korea's economy has leaped to high-income status thanks to several decades of sustained high growth. However, population aging and shifts in global demand provide headwinds for future growth and Korea now faces the effects of COVID-19 on economic activity. This paper asseses the expected drag on...

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The effect of containment measures on the COVID-19 pandemic

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2020

Countries have implemented several containment measures to halt the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease, but it remains unclear the extent to which these unprecedented measures have been successful. We examine this question using daily data on the number of coronavirus disease cases as well...

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