... among the youth. The resulting increase in the population density in the SCA threatens to undermine the region’s competitiveness, while other regions are left to struggle with a supply-demand mismatch in the ... Matthew effect of sorts between the populous SCA and the rest of the country. Hiroya Masuda’s regional extinction theory is built around the ratio of women aged 20 to 39 to seniors of both genders aged 65 ...

... the irrelevance of provincial universities, and the side effects of the centralized government system, migration to the SMA is unlikely to stop. Many policies have sought to promote balanced development, but the results ... three strategies and 10 core tasks to support the Fifth Five-year Balanced National Development Plan, devising a system to coordinate and review regional policy tasks, and streamlining the special account.

... population could result in a very serious situation. Meanwhile, it is possible that the growth gap in regional economies could be aggravated by the decrease in labor productivity caused by the population changes ... countries and regions was analyzed based on indices closely related to societal aging; the effects of migration on societal aging and the correlation between migration and regional economic growth were also analyzed. ...