Title:	Ageing in Advanced Industrial States
Authors:	Shripad Tuljapurkar Naohiro Og Anne H. Ga
Keywords:	Industrial States
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Beginning in the last century and continuing into the twenty-first century, the populations of the world’s nations have displayed large and long-lived changes in age structure. Many of these began with fertility change in the form of baby booms, busts or declines, and are amplified by declining mortality and by migration within and between nations. These age-structural transitions have powerful effects on human affairs, from driving the demand for public and private goods and services for young and old, to determining the flow of resources across the different ages of the human life cycle. The consequences of age-structural transitions vary in emphasis and detail, but not in significance, across the spectrum of nations in different stages of economic development. Demography will matter in this century not by force of numbers, but by the pressures of waves of age-structural change. In 1997 a committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations was charged with exploring age-structural transitions and their policy implications. The committee brought together distinguished scientists to examine the key demographic, social, economic and policy aspects of age-structural change across a spectrum of nations at different stages of development. Readers will find a rich discussion of their work in ‘Riding the Age Waves’, a series of three books, ‘Population, Resources and Development,’ ‘Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations,’ and ‘Responses to Ageing in Advanced Industrial States.’ These volumes deal, roughly speaking, with developing economies, rapidly industrializing economies and highly industrialized economies.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55677
ISBN:	978-90-481-3553-0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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