Elderly dependency is expected to double in these countries by 2025. Their working age populations will increase modestly first and then shrink. These projections suggest that East Asia could increasingly become an important supplier of global savings up to 2025; however, rapid population ageing thereafter would reinforce rather than mitigate the inexorable decline of global savings.
Basel II also provides a structured framework for firms and supervisors to assess the robustness of risk management in the originate-to-distribute market environment.