High-Income Asia: Lessons in Population and Economy - 9789819661985

High-Income Asia: Lessons in Population and EconomyAuthor(s): Shigesaburo Kabe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9789819661985, 978-9819661985\nSynopsis\nThis book focuses on the high-income Asia that experienced fast economic growth and rapid demographic change in recent decades. High-income Asia includes Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, according to the World Banks category classification. These economies enjoyed a brief period of brilliant economic growth but then faced a demographic shift, with the lowest fertility in the world.\n\nFor example, Japan today must confront difficult challenges such as how to balance childbirth and childcare with womens employment as its population rapidly agesa consequence that was hardly foreseen in the process of economic growth. The changing landscape is different at each stage of the process, and the issues related to economic growth c.