dc.contributor.author | Bloom, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Canning, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Malaney, Pia N. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-22T16:59:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bloom, David E., David Canning, and Pia N. Malaney. “Demographic Change and Economic Growth in Asia.” CID Working Paper Series 1999.15, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1999. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39377553 | * |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the links between demographic change and economic growth in Asia during 1965-90. We show that the overall rate of population growth had little effect on economic growth, but that changes in life expectancy, age structure, and population density have had a significant impact on growth rates. We also find strong evidence of feedback from higher income to population change via lower fertility, though a significant component of the demographic changes appears to have been exogenous. Our results suggest that the demographic transition can act both as a catalyst and as an accelerator mechanism, and that demographic effects can explain most of East Asia’s economic “miracle”. East Asia benefited from a “virtuous spiral” of income growth and fertility decline, while South Asia seems to remain caught in a low-level population-income trap. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Center for International Development at Harvard University | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications | en_US |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.title | Demographic Change and Economic Growth in Asia | en_US |
dc.type | Research Paper or Report | en_US |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | CID Working Paper Series | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-22T16:59:40Z | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Canning, David | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Bloom, David | |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-4041-1229 | |