By Camille Danvers In the 1960s, the baby boomer generation shook the U.S., advocating social and political changes on an unprecedented scale. Today, India is facing a similar situation as an emerging educated and young middle class expects more transparency…
By Camille Danvers & Guru Amrit Khalsa This is the fourth post in a series analyzing India’s newly released Union Budget from CSIS Wadhwani Chair experts on cogitASIA. This post discusses India’s education investment. Part I on economics is here.…
By Matt Goodman Japan’s demographic trends are grim, but the Japanese make it harder on themselves by not better using the people they have. Women in particular are famously underutilized. Some 60 percent of women quit the workforce after giving…
By Katherine Sliney As part of the government restructuring plan announced in conjunction with the Chinese government’s annual “two meetings,” China’s senior leadership declared plans to dismantle the Family Planning Commission, the government body responsible for overseeing China’s population control…
By Derwin Pereira The controversy over plans for a more crowded Singapore ignores global demographic trends and risks undermining the country’s growth. The thought of Singapore being inhabited by even a hypothetical 6.9 million people by 2030 has focused minds with…
By Richard Jackson and Tobias Peter As the world’s societies age, policymakers are trying to peer into the future and anticipate the retirement needs of tomorrow’s growing elderly populations. Nowhere is this more difficult to do than in emerging East…
