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These days are the period of rapid brain growth and maturation: 80 percent by two years, and physical growth (height and weight) velocity is highest during the first two years. [Patience Ivie [...]

The Intergenerational Report puts a long lens on the nation’s future, looking at the implications of demographic changes and covering a broad range of economic and social areas.  [Michelle [...]

Ignacio Socias during the previous Summit, in 2021. The director of international relations of IFFD, Ignacio Socias, will join a panel discussion at the Fifth Budapest Demographic Summit upon an [...]

Even if leaders don’t intend to be models for others, they are. Because leaders have been hired or promoted into visible roles, they are representations of what an organization values and [...]

Decades of a one-child policy led to a 4-2-1 problem, in which a sole young adult must become the breadwinner for not only his two parents but also his four grandparents. [Chad de Guzman – [...]

While we should enact affordable child care and parental-leave policies because they’re good for society, we should be under no illusions that they will change that trajectory — we will need [...]

Housing has become unaffordable for most young people in large cities amid the sluggish economic recovery, with 11.58 million college graduates set to enter China’s workforce this year. [Meredith [...]

Japan lost 800,000 people last year, with deaths outpacing births at a record rate. The government has plans to reverse this trend but many fear its efforts will fail. [Julian Ryall – DW, 3 [...]

Life is never in “balance.” Sometimes work needs to take top priority, sometimes family does, and sometimes we need to take the top spot for ourselves on the importance list. [James M. Kerr [...]

The increase in the population growth rate is due to the higher number of non-citizens which is likely to increase from 2.5 million in 2022 to 3 million in 2023. [New Straits Times, 31 July [...]