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systems in Asia. This paper analyzes the key factors determining and the possible avenues for strengthening social protection … systems in Asia. The choice of an appropriate combination of avenues depends on the initial starting point, public policy … labor market trends in Asia. It stresses that rapid ageing and large, informal labor markets pose challenges for Asian …
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change, such as demographic transition, can also impinge upon inequality. Structural change in developing Asia has been … economies entail valuable lessons for developing Asia. Extensive structural change is both a cause and consequence of the … exceptionally rapid economic growth, which enabled developing Asia to raise living standards and reduce poverty at a historically …
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parentally altruistic than the former. Especially, people in developing Asia have notably lower adjusted degrees of filial …
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Japan's aging population poses a variety of problems, one of which is the increase in neurological disorders. In this study, we propose a framework quantifying the decline in gross domestic product (GDP) resulting from the reduction of labor from two neurological disorders, Alzheimer's disease...
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Population aging will be a major determinant of long-run economic development in industrial and developing countries. The extent of the demographic changes is dramatic in some countries and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods markets. The expected strain on public budgets and...
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learned could also be used in other developing countries in the Asia and Pacific region. …
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Nowadays, it is very important to capture the data relating to the e-commerce phenomenon. It is related to the use of information and communication technology (ICT), not only in the ICT sector, but in all sectors. ICT can accelerate the development of economies, which, in turn, impacts social...
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in South Asia. Therefore, the study uses panel data for understanding the structural change in the demographic changes of … slowdown episodes and consequently drive South Asia into stagnation. The determinants of growth slowdown are: significant …
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Population aging has significant economic and social costs, and this paper studies its impacts on inequality, both theoretically and empirically. First, we build a two-period overlapping-generation model with an uncertain lifetime and find that population aging has the overall effect of...
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Many economies in East and Southeast Asia are progressing toward becoming aging or aged societies. The impacts of this …
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