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Economic Growth Perspective, China's Demographic Dividend Use

Posted on:2010-08-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199360275964457Subject:Population, resource and environmental economics
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Since the last century 60's, the economical growth of some nations such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, had maintained in a quite high level for more than 30 years, it is called" the East Asian miracle"." Some research indicated that, the fully used demographic dividend which the population transformation brought to appearance is one of the important reasons.Demographic transformation from the formation process of the population age structure of the advantages under certain conditions will be translated into economic growth beyond the steady-state in addition to the fruits of economic success, and this is the so-called "demographic dividend." Now our country is occupying the labor force rich supplies time, along with time passing, the superiority of the labor force resources will transform the old age population burden very quickly. If the rich labor force resources during this temporary population dividend time can not be fully tapped, we shall lose the good opportunity through the cash demographic dividend to promote our country's economic development certainly. How to make good use of China's demographic dividend 1 become the purpose of writing this article.This article introduces the concept and forming process of demographic dividend, and through the analysis of the change of the Chinese population, it shows that the population transformation completed fast caused Chinese demographic dividend to come early also to go quickly, and the pattern of our country's demographic dividend belongs to the representative quick transformation and short persistence one. The demographic transitions make China begin to enjoy the demographic dividend from the 1990s, and the Chinese demographic dividend time will finish in about 2030, revealing the tendency which the demographic dividend will. This paper is doing some research of how much contribution that the demographic dividend makes to the economy increase, and based on the characters of the demographic dividend, at the meantime. Finally, putting forward the achievement channel of the demographic dividend effect and how to face the challenge that from the upper period of demographic dividend tentatively.
Keywords/Search Tags:demographic transitions, demographic dividend, economical growth, full employment
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