FCCJ Deep Dive: Ageing and Population Decline - The Threat to Japan and to Asia
8:30-10:00 am, Friday, May 17, 2024
(The speeches and Q & A will be in English.)
Aiko Kikkawa: Senior Economist, Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila.
Naohiro Ogawa: Visiting Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Tokyo.
Jesper Koll: Global Ambassador & Expert Director, Monex & Group Japan, Japan Catalyst Fund.
Whatever external threats Asian nations face at a time of growing geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions, a number of the key economies among them - notably Japan, China, South Korea and others - also face an “enemy within” in the shape of ageing and declining populations. This potential demographic “timebomb” could endanger the Asian economic miracle unless more robust policies are adopted to reverse the trend.
This has enormous economic and financial as well as social implications for the region. The Asian Development Bank has recently published its inaugural policy report entitled "Aging Well in Asia" which will form a centrepiece of the Deep Dive discussion. The report provides new data and analysis and it highlights the need for lifelong investment in human capital, a life-cycle approach to intervention for age-specific needs, and population-wide outreach to people of all ages.
AIKO KIKKAWA is a Senior Economist in the ADB’s Economic Research and Development Impact Department. Her research portfolio covers population aging and demographic change, international migration and remittances, and economic analyses of development projects. She was the lead author of the Asian Development Policy Report 2024: Aging Well in Asia, and the Asian Economic Integration Report 2019/2020 theme chapter titled “Demographic Change, Productivity and the Role of Technology”. She currently leads ADB’s technical assistance project supporting the introduction and implementation of aging and retirement surveys in Asia.
NAOHIRO OGAWA: Before joining the ADBI, he taught population economics at institutions such as Nihon University’s College of Economics, the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics, and University of Malaya’s Faculty of Economics and Public Administration. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Hawaii. He has written extensively on population and development in Japan and other Asian countries.
JESPER KOLL has been consistently recognized as one of the top Japan strategists/economists, having worked as Chief Strategist and Head of Research for U.S. investment banks J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch. He currently serves as Expert Director for the Monex Group and the Japan Catalyst Fund.
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