A tax earmarked for the NHS is an option worth exploring
China: from surplus labour and unemployment risk, to labour shortages in a decade
21st January 2015
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced recently that even though economic growth had dropped in 2014 to the lowest for 24 years (7.4%),
Strategies for winning the demographic battle
Asia’s aging population will inevitably affect its economic growth.
The clock is ticking for an aging Asia
Less attention has been paid to the fact that graying demographics are a ubiquitous global phenomenon — even in once youthful emerging Asia.
The Age of Ageing: demography and its influence on markets and geopolitics
(An abbreviated and edited version of a speech given at the ZfU International Business School,
Demographics in China and India: different characteristics, and challenges
23 January 2014
China’s old age dependency ratio of about 11% today,