Thread by @lajohnstondr

1/15: #India is late stressing re ‘getting old before rich’; What should it learn from #China - which rather has prepared for becoming ‘poor-old’ since 1980s:
counterview.in/2022/07/gettin… @DrBhatt_Pooja @DrIanHall @BRI_SL @beltandroad1 @XiaolanF @IEAKwame @alykhansatchu @danbanik

2/15: Getting Old Before Getting Rich – What is it and What is China’s approach? muse.jhu.edu/article/805759… #ageing #demographics #China

3/15: Open access working paper re #China’s long-run approach to getting old before rich - its economic demography transition strategy: econstor.eu/bitstream/1041…

4/15: The Economic Demography Transition: Is ‘Getting Old Before Rich’ a Barrier to Growth? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

5/15: Earlier Open Access Book Ch Version – “Getting Rich After Getting Old”:
jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1r…

6/15: More on the Economic Demography Transition – old-before-rich China vs rich-as-old South Korea vs old-after-rich Japan:
policyforum.net/east-asias-dem… @APPSPolicyForum

7/15: China’s recent efforts to up its ‘poor-old’ China agenda (@ftchina):
ft.com/content/b909e1…

8/15: Is Old Before Rich of relevance to Africa?: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/african-d… #SinoAfrica #ChinaAfrica

9/15: Old Before Rich and East/Central Europe (transition economics, hence incl. #Russia & #Ukraine):
springerprofessional.de/en/understandi… @pu_unece @UNECE

10/15: Relevance to South Asia:
lki.lk/blog/poor-old-…

11/15: Getting Old Before Rich vs Getting Old After Rich (OECD/G20 lessons)
africaportal.org/publications/t… #G20Indonesia

12/15: China vs Japan on Ageing – Old before vs After Rich via the Ski Industry:
odi.org/en/insights/wh… @ODI_Global

13/15: China vs old-as-rich South Korea – Higher Education window:
asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-go…

14/15: Lessons from China on population ageing @wef blog: weforum.org/agenda/2019/10… #WEF #ageing

15/15: “Poor-old” China lessons for other economies (@ftopinion): ft.com/content/42da32… #ageing #China #BRICS #BRICs #demographics

Maybe not @foxjust (see thread) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… #China #demographics

#China has long-run economic demography agenda aiming for quantity-to-quality shift; living standards to rise pc, rapidly even, as (or directly via) population falls. #Japan et al have no such long-run plan @yurikageyama @MESandbu @ErykBagshaw @martinwolf_ @Noahpinion @MaryGao