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Is China Cooking The Books On Its Census Data?

Beijing grandmother and grandson (WestZest)   By Yi Fuxien 经济观察报(Economic Observer)/Worldcrunch China’s just released 10-year census shows the country’s population total at 1.3397 billion people. Compared with the last census conducted in 2000, the 2010 numbers show that the population … Continue reading

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Grey matters

Ageing societies must harness the skills and experience of the “silver tsunami” to ease the strain on public resources – and keep the sustainability agenda on track, writes John Elkington. “Whether we like it or not, defusing this demographic time … Continue reading

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