TY - BOOK ID - 84540713 TI - Demographic Change in Asia : The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account AU - McDonald, Ian. AU - Bésanger, Serge. AU - Guest, Ross. PY - 2000 SN - 146237817X 1452758301 1282110705 1451899262 9786613803580 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Production and Operations Management KW - Demography KW - General Aggregative Models: Forecasting and Simulation KW - Macroeconomics: Consumption KW - Saving KW - Wealth KW - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts KW - Planning Models KW - Planning Policy KW - Economics of the Elderly KW - Economics of the Handicapped KW - Non-labor Market Discrimination KW - Human Capital KW - Skills KW - Occupational Choice KW - Labor Productivity KW - Demographic Economics: General KW - Population & demography KW - Consumption KW - Aging KW - Labor productivity KW - Demographic change KW - Population and demographics KW - National accounts KW - Production KW - Economics KW - Population aging KW - Demographic transition KW - Population KW - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84540713 AB - 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. ER -