This issue of Asia-Pacific Population and Policy examines the size of the elderly population in Asia and projections for the next 50 years. It discusses some of the characteristics of Asia's elderly population. Information is based on a study of population momentum and population aging at the East-West Center prepared by the UN for the 32 countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia with popu...

approaches to defining 'information' are politically problematic. All decisionmaking concerns can be incorporated in, and the definitional dilemma resolved with, a hierarchy of four categories of definitions that increase in scope and complexity of the social structure to which they are applied as well as the amount of power granted information. These categories of information are as a resource...