Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222235 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 593
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
The first pandemic of the 21st century has brought Pyrrhic attention to one of the era’s greatest megatrends – population ageing. Today rich countries are disproportionately affected but increasingly the world’s elderly are residents of developing countries. In rich and poor countries alike, a policy approach that explicitly accounts for the interdependence of economic and demographic change – an economic demography transition approach - has never been more pressing. Thanks partly to the tragedy of history’s greatest Malthusian stagnation, that of mid-20th century China, Chinese policymakers implemented draconian population control measures alongside dramatic economic reforms from around 1980. This paper elaborates China’s consequential and ongoing economic demography transition strategy within the economic and development policy discourse. Amid epochal demographic, public health, and geo-economic change, this economic demography perspective is timely, unique and useful in extrapolation across all economies.
Subjects: 
Population ageing
Economic Demography
Demographic Transition
China
JEL: 
J11
J18
N35
O20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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