Investors will be closely watching next month's meeting in Manila to see if members can actually keep their promises and separate aging industries from their protective security blankets.

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And entire industries have grown up around the idea of productive aging, the third age, or all the other marketing euphemisms out there.

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These include an aging population, a financial system that badly needs restructuring, and deregualtion of industries that other developed nations addressed long ago.

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