The world’s population is ageing and this presents a major policy issue in the developing world (United Nations, 1991). In Asia, the crisis is an immediate one (World Bank, 1994); China stands out as the most rapidly ageing society, and its population structure will be closer to that of the developed regions by 2025 (United Nations, 1999a, 1999b). In Africa, ageing is a crisis that is just begi...

International migration flows largely reflect demographic patterns and economic opportunities. Migration increase in expected income other pull factors potential destinations, push the origin, like high unemployment, low wages, population growth. decrease geographic cultural distance between origin destination, costs. To extent that migrants are employed, immigration can alleviate challenges ar...

As we enter into a novel demographic post-transition period characterized by ageing and potentially shrinking populations, there is clearly a need for a new population and development paradigm as the old paradigms have not dealt with these historically recent population changes. We are thus in search of a new population policy approach for ageing and shrinking populations as well as for sustain...