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Demographic Change in Asia: The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account

By Ian S McDonald, Serge Bésanger, Ross Guest

June 1, 2000

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Ian S McDonald, Serge Bésanger, and Ross Guest. Demographic Change in Asia: The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach. These calculations show the sensitivity of results to changing demographic structures on employment participation, labor productivity; and consumption demands. In particular, the simulations reveal that variations in prospective demographic change across economies cause considerable variations in the patterns of optimal national saving rates.

Subject: Aging, Consumption, Demographic change, Labor productivity, National accounts, Population and demographics, Production

Keywords: Aging, Consumption, Consumption demand, Consumption weight, Consumption-smoothing effect, Current Account Balance, Demographic change, Demography, Europe, Investments, Labor productivity, National saving, Ratio, Saving, Saving pattern, Saving performance, Saving rate decrease, Saving ratio, Savings, Support ratio, Wealth-consumption ratio, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    42

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/115

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1152000

  • ISBN:

    9781451853858

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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