The Macroeconomic and Fiscal Impact of Aging in Thailand
This paper contributes to the existing literature in several ways. First of all, to the best of our knowledge this is the first paper to exclusively model and analyze the impact of aging on long-term growth in Thailand. Although there several studi...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/341151622726665459/Labor-Markets-and-Social-Policy-in-a-Rapidly-Transforming-The-Macroeconomic-and-Fiscal-Impact-of-Aging-in-Thailand http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35692 |
| Summary: | This paper contributes to the existing
literature in several ways. First of all, to the best of our
knowledge this is the first paper to exclusively model and
analyze the impact of aging on long-term growth in Thailand.
Although there several studies that have analyzed the
relationship between aging and private saving in Thailand,
this is the first to employ a cointegration analysis. This
approach is more suitable given that we are interested in
the long-term relationship between the two and the fact that
demographic changes are slow. Moreover, this paper is the
first most comprehensive study of the macroeconomic and
fiscal impacts of aging in Thailand. Existing studies have
focused on how aging impacts one variable (Pootrakool et al.
2005; IMF 2019). The rest of this paper is organized as
follows. Section two presents an assessment of the impact of
aging on macroeconomic variables. Section three analyzes how
aging is likely to impact Thailand’s fiscal standing.
Section four discusses various reforms that can help
mitigate the negative impact of aging on long-term growth
and fiscal sustainability and section five concludes. |
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