I recently moved back to Russia after spending more than two decades away – and I found a country quite different from the one I left in the late 1990s. The development journey that Russia has ...
More people are dying than being born in Missouri — what experts refer to as a “demographic winter.” St. Louis University professor Ness Sandoval explains where we are and what it will take to reverse ...
For Central Asian countries, the current demographic situation presents a unique opportunity for economic growth. With a ...
AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...
Latin America is experiencing a full demographic transition to an aging population. Demographic transitions bring opportunities and challenges to regional public policies that must be addressed right ...
For too long, India’s policy makers took comfort in the fact that the country’s large population of the youth gave it a distinct demographic advantage. Time has now come to shrug off this sense of ...