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    East Asia in world trade: the decoupling fallacy, crisis, and policy challenges

    Research Centre International Economics, Austrian Institute of Economic Research, 2010
    The ‘decoupling’ thesis  - that the East Asian region has become a self-contained economic entity with potential for maintaining its own growth dynamism, independent of traditional developed market economies, was a popular theme in Asian policy-making until the onset of the recent financial crisis.
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    Economic growth and transition in Vietnam and China and its consequences for their agricultural sectors: policy and agricultural adjustment issues

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    This paper discusses and compares the consequences for agriculture of economic growth and transition in Vietnam and China. The author states that China and Vietnam have experienced similar adjustments in their agricultural sectors and face at this time, similar agricultural policy problems.
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    China’s rapidly aging population: program and policy implications

    Population Reference Bureau, 2010
    The proportion of elderly citizens in China will continue to grow very quickly, as a combination of China’s one-child policy and low mortality takes effect, increasing the stress on an already troubled health care system. Only 40 percent of elderly males and just 13 percent of elderly females receive any kind of support from a pension:
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    The Chinese pension system – first results on assessing the reform options

    Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 2010
    The Chinese population, totalling 1.3 billion, is ageing fast. The Chinese pension system covers only 55% of urban employees and reaches a very small part of the rural population. 
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    Accounting for China’s growth

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2010
    There has been continued debate over the sources of China’s remarkable growth over the last three decades. This paper tries to determine and quantify the sources of China’s impressive economic growth.
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    Urban public pension, replacement rates and population growth rate in China

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
    This paper investigates the urban public pension in China, and examines the effects of the replacement rates and population growth rate on the capital-labour ratio, pension benefits, consumption and utility. Furthermore, it figures out the optimal replacement rate.
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    Brazil’s rural pension system, its development and impacts: lessons for China

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2009
    Like Brazil in the 1960s, China is now facing problems of large geographical inequalities, as well high rates of rural to urban migration of younger aged adults. However, rural older people account for a much higher share of China‟s total population than in Brazil. This both increases the urgency for universal pension provision and increases the economic cost of doing so.
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    The time to lead is now: the adoption of ESG analysis by Asian government pension funds

    The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009
    Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversify.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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    Pension systems for the informal sector in Asia

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2009
    The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age.

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