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The World Health Organization has launched a new package of measures, the Global Scales for Early Development, to monitor the development of young children at population level up to three years [...]

The government will launch a series of measures in the coming months to reduce the impact of inflation on people’s cost of living, including new workplace family supportive policies, according to [...]

As many of us worked from home during the pandemic, it became evident that things were not particularly equal, even among dual-earner couples. [Adi Gaskell – Forbes, 25 February 2023.] READ MORE

Across the EU countries, the median age ranged from 38.3 years in Cyprus, 38.8 in Ireland and 39.7 in Luxembourg to 48.0 years in Italy, 46.8 in Portugal and 46.1 in Greece. In total, 18 EU [...]

A job that offers autonomy and support for a parent in a child’s first year of life is linked to better cognitive and social outcomes and mental health for that child six years down the road. [...]

According to the United Nations Population Division, the number of persons aged 65 and older is expected to double over the next three decades, reaching 1.6 billion in 2050. [Felix Richter [...]

The Commission for Social Development, acting by consensus on the final day of its sixty-first session, decided to forward four draft resolutions to the Economic and Social Council for adoption — [...]

China’s demographic shift is worrying policymakers but in the short term, the labor force remains sufficient and business opportunities are emerging in new subsectors. [Yi Wu – China [...]

As children from less educated families perform significantly worse than the children of the more educated, it is far less likely their relative economic situation in adulthood will exceed that [...]

America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking for the rich, who are buying more free time, but unfortunately that’s not the case for the average American worker.  [Bryan Robinson [...]