Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia?

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of aging on economic growth. The study used dynamic growth model and employed ARDL approach for the period of 1970 to 2013. Three proxies for aging are used namely fertility rate, life expectancy and old dependency ratio. However, only fertility rat...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Normaz Wana, Abdul Rahman, Siti Wardah, Tengku Abdul Hamid, Tengku Aizan
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: School of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48831/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48831/1/Does%20population%20aging%20affect%20economic%20growth%20in%20Malaysia.pdf
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author Ismail, Normaz Wana
Abdul Rahman, Siti Wardah
Tengku Abdul Hamid, Tengku Aizan
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Abdul Rahman, Siti Wardah
Tengku Abdul Hamid, Tengku Aizan
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description The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of aging on economic growth. The study used dynamic growth model and employed ARDL approach for the period of 1970 to 2013. Three proxies for aging are used namely fertility rate, life expectancy and old dependency ratio. However, only fertility rate detect to have a long run cointegration. The major findings of this study revealed that a reduction of fertility rate lead to higher economic growth. This implied that even though Malaysia will face aging society by 2020, the economic growth still stable and can increase by investing more on human capital.
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spelling upm-488312016-11-01T03:51:55Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48831/ Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia? Ismail, Normaz Wana Abdul Rahman, Siti Wardah Tengku Abdul Hamid, Tengku Aizan The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of aging on economic growth. The study used dynamic growth model and employed ARDL approach for the period of 1970 to 2013. Three proxies for aging are used namely fertility rate, life expectancy and old dependency ratio. However, only fertility rate detect to have a long run cointegration. The major findings of this study revealed that a reduction of fertility rate lead to higher economic growth. This implied that even though Malaysia will face aging society by 2020, the economic growth still stable and can increase by investing more on human capital. School of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48831/1/Does%20population%20aging%20affect%20economic%20growth%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Ismail, Normaz Wana and Abdul Rahman, Siti Wardah and Tengku Abdul Hamid, Tengku Aizan (2015) Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia? In: Tenth Malaysian National Economic Conference (PERKEM), 18-20 Sept. 2015, Melaka, Malaysia. (pp. 205-210). http://www.ukm.my/fep/perkem/contents/perkem2015-06.html
spellingShingle Ismail, Normaz Wana
Abdul Rahman, Siti Wardah
Tengku Abdul Hamid, Tengku Aizan
Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia?
title Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia?
title_full Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia?
title_fullStr Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia?
title_full_unstemmed Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia?
title_short Does population aging affect economic growth in Malaysia?
title_sort does population aging affect economic growth in malaysia?
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48831/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48831/1/Does%20population%20aging%20affect%20economic%20growth%20in%20Malaysia.pdf