dc.contributor.author	Gragnolati, Michele
dc.contributor.author	Rofman, Rafael
dc.contributor.author	Apella, Ignacio
dc.contributor.author	Troiano, Sara
dc.contributor.other	Grushka, Carlos
dc.contributor.other	Comelatto, Pablo
dc.contributor.other	Maceira, Daniel
dc.contributor.other	Barbieri, María Eugenia
dc.contributor.other	Marchionni, Mariana
dc.contributor.other	Alejo, Javier
dc.contributor.other	Cetrángolo, Oscar
dc.contributor.other	Fanelli, José María
dc.date.accessioned	2015-04-23T18:51:00Z
dc.date.available	2015-04-23T18:51:00Z
dc.date.issued	2015-04-23
dc.description.abstract	The process of demographic transition through which Argentina is passing is a window of both opportunities and challenges in economic and social terms. Argentina is still a young country in which the working-age population represents the largest proportion of its total population. Currently, the country just began a 30-year period with the most advantageous age structure of its population, which could favor greater economic growth. This situation, known as the 'demographic window of opportunity,' will last until the beginning of the 2040s. The dynamics of the fertility and mortality rates signify a gradual ageing of the population, with implications for various dimensions of the economy, the social protection system, public policies, and society in general. This book studies the opportunities and challenges that the demographic transition poses for the Argentine economy, its most important social sectors like the healthcare, education, and social protection systems, and the potential fiscal trade-offs that must be dealt with. The study shows that even though Argentina is moving through its demographic transition, it just recently began to enjoy the window of opportunity and this constitutes a great opportunity to achieve an accumulation of capital and future economic growth. Once the window of opportunity has passed, population ageing will have a significant impact on the level of expenditure, especially spending in the social protection system. This signifies a challenge from a fiscal policy point of view, because if long-term reforms are not undertaken to mediate these effects, the demographic transition will put pressure on the reallocation of fiscal resources among social sectors. Finally, population ageing poses concerns related to sustaining the rate of economic growth with a smaller working-age population. Taking advantage of the current window of opportunities, increasing savings that will finance the accumulation of capital, and increasing future labor force productivity in this way is a challenge for the Argentine economy.	en
dc.description.abstract	El proceso de transición demográfica por el que se encuentra atravesando Argentina, es una ventana tanto de oportunidades como de desafíos en materia económica y social. Argentina es aún un país joven en el cual la población en edad de trabajar representa la mayor proporción de su población total. Aún así, la dinámica en la tasa de fecundidad y mortalidad conlleva un gradual envejecimiento de la población, con implicaciones en varias dimensiones de la economía, el sistema de protección social, las políticas públicas y la sociedad en general. El objetivo central de este libro es dar el puntapié inicial en el estudio del potencial impacto que un fenómeno seguro pero gradual, como es la transición demográfica, tendría sobre la economía argentina, mostrando la importancia que merece la discusión actual de futuras reformas a fin de mitigar los efectos adversos del envejecimiento. El impacto sobre el nivel de gasto en los sistemas de protección social, salud y educación, a partir de la consideración de diferentes escenarios posibles de política pública, como así también el espacio fiscal y las disyuntivas de gastos y sus desafíos, y el contexto macroeconómico y las perspectivas de mediano y largo plazo en términos de crecimiento económico, son presentados en capítulos independientes a fin de cubrir lo que entendemos era un vacío importante en la literatura, y así contribuir al debate de políticas públicas en las áreas estudiadas.	es
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0530-1
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-0530-1
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/21769
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Directions in Development--Human Development
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	aging
dc.subject	demographic transition
dc.subject	health system
dc.subject	labor market
dc.subject	productivity
dc.subject	social protection
dc.subject	national transfers account
dc.title	As Time Goes By in Argentina	en
dc.title	Los años no vienen solos : oportunidades y desafíos económicos de la transición demográfica en Argentina	es
dc.title.alternative	Los anos no vienen solos : oportunidades y desafios economicos de la transicion demografica en Argentina	es
dc.title.subtitle	Economic Opportunities and Challenges of the Demographic Transition	en
dc.type	Book	en
dc.type	Livre	fr
dc.type	Libro	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2014-04-23
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.globalpractice	Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid	817641467991017737
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0530-1
okr.identifier.report	96046
okr.language.supported	en
okr.language.supported	es
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/419121468002092154/pdf/880550WP0P13310o0vienen0solos0FINAL.pdf	es
okr.region.country	Argentina
okr.topic	Education::Education For All
okr.topic	Education::Primary Education
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Demographics
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Population & Development
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
okr.txturl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/419121468002092154/text/880550WP0P13310o0vienen0solos0FINAL.txt	es
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