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Average Income
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Catherine Jones Finer
CPF
CPF Account
CPF Board
CPF Member
CPF Scheme
cross-cultural ageing policy analysis
CSSA Scheme
demographic transition
East Asia case studies
EES
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EU Member State
Foreign NGO
Gordon Deuchars
Hsiao-Hung Nancy Chen
Individual EU Member State
intergenerational solidarity
Joe C. B. Leung
Larger Families
Long Term Care Insurance
Long Term Care Services
Long Trail
Mandatory Provident Fund
Medisave Account
MPF Scheme
MPF.
National Pension Act
Pap Government
Paul Wilding
pension system reform
Provident Fund System
Retirement Benefits
Retirement Pensions
Roziah Omar
Seong-Hoon Bae
social policy comparison
Social Security Schemes
Sung-Jae Choi
Tee Liang Ngiam
Tetsuo Ogawa
Tony Maltby
welfare state policy
Product details
- ISBN 9781138618794
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The implications of population ageing have long concerned politicians, policy makers and governmental and non-governmental organizations in the welfare states of Europe. However, an ageing workforce is increasingly a matter of concern for the developed and fast-developing countries of Asia. Japan leads the field in this respect on account of the speed of its postwar economic development. But the little tigers of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are poised to catch up, and Malaysia, though in the second tier of developing Asian economics, faces the prospect of population ageing sufficient to daunt an as yet under-prepared infrastructure for old age support. This book is the first to examine in detail the experiences and prospects of population ageing in those Asian countries with the highest GDP per capita. The authors pose the question to what extent Asia and 'old Europe' can learn from each other in terms of policy planning. The first section of the book sets out the field in terms of the demographic characteristics and policy predicaments of European and Asian countries. The second section presents case-studies of six countries: Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia.
