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These adjustments are coming at a critical time for Africa, where many countries are experiencing a demographic dividend of declining fertility rates and rising productivity.
But there is one potential obstacle that could turn out to be a blessing in disguise: the diverse demographic shifts that will take place in the coming years.
For India and other developing countries, however, the demographic dividend is just starting to be felt.
Even here, however, the demographic news is not all bad – and not just because the shift from higher to lower fertility typically correlates with a shift from lower to higher life expectancy.
History suggests that there is a second type of demographic dividend – one that actually lasts longer and is more durable than the first – which emerges when the accumulated savings of an aging population produce a surge in investment.
But reaping a demographic dividend takes work.
As the World Bank Group’s 2015/2016 Global Monitoring Report emphasized, countries’ policy responses make all the difference in how demographic trends affect the wellbeing of the population.
Furthermore, countries should take advantage of differences in their demographic situations with appropriate policies on cross-border capital flows, migration, and trade.
Japan, arguably the hardest hit by the global recession, faces an increasingly severe moral, demographic, and governance crisis, highlighted by its recent loss, to China, of its status as the world’s second largest economy.
In past decades, the region reaped a demographic dividend from its young, expanding workforce and strong growth policies.
In China, Japan, Korea, and Thailand, these demographic trends could subtract anywhere from 0.5 to a full percentage point from annual growth over the next three decades.
This demographic trend has far-reaching implications for the region.
Moreover, slowing productivity growth could compound Asia’s demographic problem.
Then there are demographic challenges.
We are in the middle of a social and demographic shift that will both destroy and create consumer markets.
At the other end of the demographic scale, the share of the aged is growing explosively.
Of course, in America there are, as elsewhere, problems on the horizon, problems associated with demographic developments and the aging of the population.
Faced with demographic decline, it, too, is attempting to shift toward a more internationalized post-industrial economy.
Demographic changes can be equally painful for a society.
Little, if anything, is being done to stem the demographic crisis, and it cannot be resolved by a higher birth rate alone (although this is obviously an important factor).
The third challenge that Russia faces--one related to addressing its demographic crisis--is the need to diversify investment to ensure more even economic development, both geographically and by sector.
But, according to a recent and very convincing essay published in the magazine Foreign Affairs , a dual demographic and economic trend is taking place that will result in spectacular shifts by the middle of this century.
Confronted with revolutionary demographic and economic transformations, Americans and Europeans should behave in a much more responsible manner.
Indeed, Brazil, India, and South Africa are members of the Fragile Five, and demographic decline in China and Russia will undermine both countries’ potential growth.
Moreover, some of the medium-term fundamentals for most emerging markets, including the fragile ones, remain strong: urbanization, industrialization, catch-up growth from low per capita income, a demographic dividend, the emergence of a more stable middle class, the rise of a consumer society, and the opportunities for faster output gains once structural reforms are implemented.
But China’s demographic advantage is diminishing quickly, owing to low fertility rates and population aging.
Finally, though some evidence suggests that there is an over-supply of university graduates in China, ongoing demographic and sectoral shifts mean that China will encounter a supply deficit of 24 million highly skilled graduates of universities or higher-level vocational schools by 2020.
The country’s demographic structure is changing, with an increasing number of retirees relative to the workers who are in their prime saving years.
This would come on top of the currently projected fiscal deficits in both the near term and over the coming decade – and before America’s demographic shift substantially raises the cost of Social Security and Medicare.
The decade ahead will be a particularly opportune time to create a transfer union, owing to the looming demographic crisis that is threatening most European countries, with the exception of France.
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