The age of aging: how demographics are changing the global economy and our world
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Introducing a new age -- Population issues from Jesus Christ to aging and climate change -- The age of aging -- The economics of aging : what is to be done? -- Coming of age : United States, Japan, and Europe -- Will aging damage your wealth? -- Waiting in the wings : aging in emerging and developing nations -- Where globalization and demographics meet -- Will immigration solve aging society problems? -- Demographic issues in religion and international security -- Epilogue : the boomerangst generation -- Postscript : population forecasting |
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| adam_text | Dedication xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Preface xvii
Chapter 1: Introducing a new age 1
Everyone is affected everywhere 3
The demographic debate laid bare 6
Differing prospects for richer and poorer nations 7
Demographics and other global trends 8
Endnotes 9
Chapter 2: Population issues from Jesus Christ to
aging and climate change 11
Population take-off, Malthus, and Marx 13
Fertility debate gathers significance 15
Falling fertility, family structures, and modern times 18
Climate change, food, oil, and water join the fray 21
Food and oil supplies 25
Water shortages too? 28
What happened to the dominant species? 29
Endnotes 30
Chapter 3: The age of aging 33
Global population changes 34
Your world party guest list 37
Three stages of ages 38
Aging and dependency 42
What about the workers? 46
Dependency ratios for the old and the young are
not comparable 48
The demographic dividend for poorer countries 54
viii CONTENTS
Conclusions 55
Endnotes 56
Chapter 4: The economics of aging—what is to be done? 57
How the rich world is aging 58
Will labor shortages crimp growth? 59
Is it possible to boost the supply of workers? 61
Raising participation and immigration 63
Women to work 65
Can we strengthen brain as well as brawn? 67
Working longer to retirement 69
Youth trends sap economic strength 70
How much immigration? 73
Productivity is the holy economic grail 76
Will we be able to finance retirement? 80
Saving less with age, saving less anyway 82
Changing pension schemes 84
Retirement and savings in the United States 85
Endnotes 88
Chapter 5: Coming of age: United States, Japan,
and Europe 91
Aging in advanced economies 93
Accounting for growth in Japan, western
Europe, and America 95
Removing the sex and age barriers to work 99
Barriers to female employment 100
Barriers to older workers in employment 104
Later retirement is more than just a matter of law 106
A Singaporean model for all? 109
Who s for change? 109
Endnotes 111
Chapter 6: Will aging damage your wealth? 113
Will there be enough in the personal savings pot? 114
Savings patterns and trends in Japan 115
Savings in the United States 117
Savings in Europe 118
Less generous pensions 120
CONTENTS ix
More self-reliance for retirement savings 123
Government spending and more public debt 124
Age-related spending: pensions 125
Age-related spending: healthcare 127
Age-related spending in OECD countries 128
America s healthcare and public
spending explosion 130
Paying for aging 135
Fiscal versus fallen angels 137
Will aging societies inflate or deflate? 141
Will aging damage your wealth? 144
Less buoyant returns but new opportunities 146
Safe as houses? 148
Prime-age house buyers in decline: who will buy? 150
Wealthy and healthy? 152
Endnotes 153
Chapter 7: Waiting in the wings: aging in emerging
and developing nations 157
Aging faster than rich countries 159
Demographic dividend and dependency 161
Asian strengths and weaknesses 164
Gender discrimination 165
China—Middle Kingdom, middle age 167
One-child policy 168
Running out of cheap labor 171
Economic consequences 173
Growing social policy agenda 175
India and its human capital 178
An Asian America? 179
Jobs and skills are what India needs 181
Russia—a failing petrostate? 185
Demographic decay 186
Fading fertility 188
Mounting mortality 189
Manpower, military, and immigration 191
Africa and the Middle East, banking on
the dividend 193
X CONTENTS
Africa: a distorted dividend? 195
Reasons to be optimistic regardless? 196
Stronger institutions, too much HIV/AIDS 198
Middle East and North Africa—rage, religion,
and reform 202
Basic population characteristics 202
Angry young men in an unstable region 205
The need for reform 209
Believing, not belonging 211
Don t hold your breath 213
Endnotes 214
Chapter 8: Where globalization and
demographics meet 219
Globalization is the death of distance 220
Solving the globalization problem via institutions 222
The globalization trilemma 224
Negative sentiment 226
Globalization and well-being: the case
of HIV/AIDS 229
For richer, for poorer: marriage by globalization 234
Conclusions 239
Endnotes 241
Chapter 9: Will immigration solve aging society
problems? 243
Rising hostility toward immigration 244
How many immigrants and where are they? 249
How sustainable is higher immigrant fertility? 254
Economic arguments are awkward or weak 257
Short-run effects positive but may not last 259
Unskilled or semiskilled immigration issues 261
For some, a brain drain into retirement 262
Financial aspects of immigration are balanced 264
Competition for migrants may be rising 266
Conclusions 267
Endnotes 268
CONTENTS XI
Chapter 10: Demographic issues in religion and
international security 271
The secular-religious pendulum swings back 272
The Pyrrhic victory of secular capitalism 273
Will religion get us from here to maternity? 275
Religious belief in the ascendant? 279
Secular balance can be sustained 284
International security 286
Demographic change and new forms of conflict 287
Manpower shortages 290
Endnotes 294
Epilogue: The Boomerangst generation 295
The kiss of debt and other sources of angst 298
Insecurity, inequality, and changing
family structures 302
Conclusion 305
Endnotes 307
Postscript: Population forecasting 309
Index 315
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