For the U.S. workforce, workplaces, and consumer markets, the implications are far-ranging. Most immediately, and ...

The past two decades has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. The workshop looked at these recent trends and set the stage for the next ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. James Carville won the Presidency for Bill Clinton in 1992 with a sign in the campaign’s headquarters saying “The ...

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"The Global Baby Bust," by Phillip Longman (May/June 2004), offers a new version of an old fear: the threat of population decline, which has emerged periodically throughout the past century as a major ...

C. Jessica Metcalf, a professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and public affairs at Princeton, is a demographer who studies the spread of infectious diseases. Her work on health policy has special ...

3 percent of the world’s population live in a country where the fertility rate is not dropping. As fertility falls, populations shrink. As populations shrink, economies will sputter. Western countries ...