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From boom to bust?Fertility, ageing & demographic change |
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| Venue | Hinton Room, One Birdcage Walk |
| Date | 18th April 2007 |
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" I greatly welcome [Alasdair Murray's 'From boom to bust'] because it introduces an element of balance and realism into a debate which is too often clouded by simplistic statements and unnecessary pessimism. The case is now frequently made that Europe faces some sort of demographic disaster, that the increase in the proportion of old people in the population will burden our health and pension systems intolerably, and also that Europe will suffer declining geopolitical power because we have a stable or falling population while the population of the us and the rest of the world continues to go up. What I think this pamphlet does, and it is very timely in this debate, it to a significant degree debunks those myths. It identifies the ageing population as a significant challenge, a major change to the design of many different elements of policy, but these are challenges that rich developed societies are well able to meet provided they think about the problems and make sensible adjustments. As the pamphlet argues: 'Europe faces a labour market problem, rather than a demographic problem'" Adair Turner April 2007 To read a copy of the report visit our publications section. |
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