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Game changer time: China’s working age population is now in decline

by Alex Evans | Jan 28, 2013

Last year saw a big tipping point in China that went relatively unnoticed: its working age population shrank, kicking off a trend that will carry on over the next 20 years. The head of China’s national statistics bureau, quoted in the FT, carefully says that “there...

Open borders: the great taboo

by Mark Weston | Jan 28, 2013

Matthew Yglesias in Slate has worked out some of what would happen if the United States opened up its borders: According to Gallup there are 150 million people around the world who say they'd like to move permanently to the United States. Right now the United States...

Book Review: ‘The Ringtone and the Drum’

by Claire Melamed | Jan 20, 2013

At the risk of coming over all ‘Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like’, it’s hard to know how to talk about being a rich and privileged white person in a poor African country. Liberal types like to accentuate the positive, and talk about the beauty of the landscapes and the...

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