Across much of the world, fertility rates are falling and populations are aging faster than economies can adapt, putting pressure on labor markets, pension systems, and public finances. The challenge is made more difficult to address by growing resistance from older voters and risk-averse leaders. Read More Here
While US President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes and H-1B visa shake-up will likely deal a sharp blow to India’s export and IT sectors, they are far from fatal. In fact, with its vast population and robust domestic demand, India is better positioned than most to withstand external shocks. Read More Here
China’s deeply entrenched countercyclical policy mindset is misaligned with its structural challenges: mounting deflationary risks, exacerbated by the lethal interplay between a rapidly aging population and serious productivity problems. Read More Here
To push back, the West must invest more in urban life. Read More Here
The historical evolution of China’s birth-control policies and its failed efforts to maintain them, even in the face of population decline, may hold the key to understanding the government’s decision-making process. By ignoring sound research, Chinese leaders have steered the country into a demographic trap. Read More Here
Mainland China’s overall population fell in 2022, illustrating how widespread shifts to pro-natalist policies are not producing the desired results. Read More Here
The most formidable demographic challenge facing the world is no longer rapid population growth, but population ageing. Thoughtful preparedness—combining behavioural changes, investment in human capital and infrastructure, policy and institutional reforms, and technological innovations—can enable countries to meet the challenge and take advantage of the opportunities presented by demographic change. Read More Here
The size of India’s population and its standing as the world’s largest democracy already deliver a measure of global political clout. Yet India’s palpable aspiration to assume its rightful place as a great power requires some big changes. Read More Here
The Chinese population census, released last May, revealed that China’s demographic situation is already quite worrying. Population growth over the previous decade is the slowest in Chinese history. The share of the population aged sixty years or over rose to nearly one-fifth of the total population. Read More Here
China’s ruling Communist Party said Monday it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing the rapid ageing of its population, which is adding to strains on the economy and society. The ruling party has enforced birth limits since 1980 to restrain population growth […]
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