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Philip Bowring
Sep 21, 2011
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Asia, or at least East Asia, is beginning to fret about its coming aging crisis. The Asian Development Bank has just published in its mid-term Asian Development Outlook, a detailed study of the numbers and their likely impact of rates of economic growth and savings.

For instance, for China from 1980 to 2010 a rising percentage of people in the workforce …

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