Tag: growth
Shrinking populations mean less growth and a more fractious world
If current forecasts are accurate, 2064 will be the first year in centuries when fewer babies are born than people die. Birth rates...
Narendra Modi’s flagship growth scheme is off to a sluggish start
Without improvements, it risks wasting trillions of rupees
China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
When China’s leaders set an economic-growth target of “around” 5% for this year, the goal was widely agreed to be ambitious. Now the...
Universities are failing to boost economic growth
Universities have boomed in recent decades. Higher-education institutions across the world now employ in the order of 15m researchers, up from 4m in...