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Aging Asia
. Ed(S): Eggleston, Karen; Tuljapurkar, Shripad
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Description for Aging Asia
Paperback. In the past fifty years, two factors have led to global population aging: a decline in fertility to levels close to --or even below --replacement and a decline in mortality that has increased world average life expectancy by nearly 67 percent. Editor(s): Eggleston, Karen; Tuljapurkar, Shripad. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1FPKS; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
In the past fifty years, two factors have led to global population aging: a decline in fertility to levels close to —or even below —replacement and a decline in mortality that has increased world average life expectancy by nearly 67 percent. As the population skews toward fewer young people and more elderly who live longer postretirement lives, demographic changes —labor force participation, savings, economic growth, living arrangements, marriage markets, and social policy —are transforming society in fundamental, irreversible ways.
Nowhere are these effects of aging and demographic change more acute —nor their long-term effects more potentially significant —than in ... Read more
In the past fifty years, two factors have led to global population aging: a decline in fertility to levels close to —or even below —replacement and a decline in mortality that has increased world average life expectancy by nearly 67 percent. As the population skews toward fewer young people and more elderly who live longer postretirement lives, demographic changes —labor force participation, savings, economic growth, living arrangements, marriage markets, and social policy —are transforming society in fundamental, irreversible ways.
Nowhere are these effects of aging and demographic change more acute —nor their long-term effects more potentially significant —than in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9781931368209
SKU
V9781931368209
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About . Ed(S): Eggleston, Karen; Tuljapurkar, Shripad
Karen Eggleston is the director of the Asia Health Policy Program (AHPP) at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University, USA. Shripad Tuljapurkar is professor of biology and the Dean & Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, USA. He also directs demographic programs at Stanford's Center for the Demography, Economics and Health of Aging, and the Stanford Center for Population ... Read more
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