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But, while this “burden” might, in fact, benefit aging European countries, the risk is relatively low in the first place: Arab countries entering such a pact would be better governed than they were under the previous regimes.
In per capita terms, mortality is also set to reach high levels in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus region, and other parts of Asia, such as South Korea, where aging populations are highly vulnerable to air pollution.
Not only is immigration relevant to economic power, but, given that nearly all developed countries are aging and face a burden of providing for older generations, it could help reduce the sharpness of the policy problem.
And both face serious demographic problems, given shrinking and aging populations, as well as the challenge of Asia’s rising superpowers.
And aging populations – a result of rising longevity and declining fertility – are putting pressure on public finances.
That falloff in investment implies slower productivity growth, while aging populations in developed countries – and now in an increasing number of emerging markets (for example, China, Russia, and Korea) – reduce the labor input in production.
During recessions, investor opinion is dominated by long-term anxieties about debt burdens, aging, and weak productivity growth, as has been true in the period since 2008.
Put this in the context of a rapidly aging population and the effects on overall consumption are dramatic.
Europe and other developed economies are aging as well, owing to low fertility rates and increasing longevity.
But those who warn that huge economic problems lie ahead for aging rich countries are focused on the wrong issue.
Population aging in advanced economies is the manageable consequence of positive developments.
This, some will say, will help “solve Europe’s aging problem.”
But, given that the aging “problem” is overstated and solvable by other means, mass migration may instead undermine Europe’s ability to reap the benefits of a stable or gently falling population.
Our celebrated welfare state will come under strain from an aging population.
Given economic stagnation, the political system’s weaknesses, the aging of the population, and resistance to immigration, fundamental change will not be easy.
Japan’s experience – characterized by more than 20 years of economic stagnation – offers important lessons for crisis-stricken democratic countries with aging populations.
Advances in biological sciences and technologies, meanwhile, are increasing our ability to control disease and aging, boost food production, and manage pollution.
A collapse in fertility rates, coupled with longer life expectancy, is driving a rapid and pronounced aging of populations.
Beyond these three immediate issues were long-run policy challenges: updating the country’s pension system to deal with an aging population and the decline of defined-benefit pensions; improving the education system so that more people would bear the risk of pursuing higher education; and reversing the erosion of America as a middle-class society.
Nor have we dealt with the likely shortfall of pension income and assets in an aging America.
But neither of the main problems confronting Europe’s social-security systems – slow economic growth and aging populations (a function of low fertility) – can be addressed at the European level.
And, while aging could be transformed into an opportunity if the elderly could be made more productive, this requires action at the national and societal levels, not more European integration.
Although economic performance in the context of population aging is substantially uncharted territory, it is not hard to understand fears about the fiscal integrity of pay-as-you-go pension and health-care systems, and about growth slowdowns in the face of contracting workforces.
With Japan’s high saving rate (a function of Japan’s aging population) and with investments held down by rates of return that diminished as Japan invested heavily during the postwar period, Japan’s excess savings naturally sought outlets abroad.
The rapid aging and decline of Japan’s rural population is fundamentally shifting Japan’s approach to food.
Rich and aging countries may finally become promoters, rather than opponents, of free trade in food.
An aging population means more retirees – expecting publicly provided pensions – relative to the number of economically active people.
The aging of the population will increase the need for service-sector employees in hospitals and nursing homes as well.
The river water, it turned out, corroded the city’s aging pipes; by the time it left the taps, it could contain high levels of toxic lead.
They frame immigration as a generally positive development that helps to mitigate the problems of aging populations and labor-market gaps.
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