The emergence of extended metropolitan regions in ASEAN: towards the year 2000
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Association of South East Asian Nations' cities have grown rapidly since 1960. About 40% of the population will live in urban areas by the year 2000. Furthermore, growth is centered in large urban areas called Extended Metropolitan Regions (EMRs). The major urban areas regions of ASEAN such as Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila have been the centers for the growth of EMRs. This has resulted from the centralization of economic growth in these areas. Such rapid growth has not supported correlative infrastructure growth and has resulted in environmental damage.
Publication Name: ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0217-4472
Year: 1992
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UNESCAP/UNPF pre-conference seminar on migration and urbanization: inter-relationships with socio-economic development and evolving policy issues: Seoul, 21-25 January 1992
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Urbanization of the Pacific Rim countries and Asia has been rapid and may improve the quality of life for their populations. However, to realize that potential, problems of physical and social infrastructure must be solved that beset most urban regions in these countries. Political power must be moved from central bodies to municipal and regional governments and this will require greater representation of urban areas. Economic growth should not be emphasized to the exclusion of concern with quality of life, environmental preservation and education.
Publication Name: ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0217-4472
Year: 1992
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The dynamics of population ageing into the twenty-first century: ASEAN and selected countries of Pacific Asia
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Forces such as improving medical care and reduced fertility rates in the countries of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Pacific Asia will result in significantly older populations by the year 2020. However, previous mortality, fertility and migration patterns cause a diversity of changing cohort relations between countries even though the overall aging pattern is similar. Using the example of Japan, expanded life-expectancy among the elderly will probably account for a greatly expanded cohort by 2020.
Publication Name: ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0217-4472
Year: 1992
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