Asia is aging, although there is significant heterogeneity across subregions and economies. Population aging poses two strategic challenges for the region: sustaining economic growth and delivering old-age economic security. In this paper, we leverage the lifecycle perspective-that individuals'...

Developing Asia has grown faster than other parts of the world for decades. However, population aging is expected to pose significant headwinds to the region’s future economic growth. We update and enhance the analysis of Park and Shin (2012) to project the impact of population aging on...

Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly by reducing poverty-thereby causing poorer families to discriminate less against females in intra-household allocations. This paper argues that growth in India has not...