Financial Times recently published an article on how the Chinese government is trying to plan its economy to better adjust to an aging population that is expected to peak in 2050 with around 35% of population over 60. According to the article, this is a culmination of a series of policies actually started at the same time as when the one-child policy was enacted. Compared … [Read more...] about China steps up push to avoid growing old while still poor
China's Changing Population
Did Millions Die in the Great Leap Forward: A Quick Note on non-Contemporaneous Data
This is a followup on a previous post titled Did Millions Die in the Great Leap Forward: A Quick Note on the Underlying Statistics. In that post, I pointed out that the only systematic data available from the time (the census of 1953 and 1964) were such that they could neither support nor refute the hypothesis that millions upon millions died during the Great Leap Forward. … [Read more...] about Did Millions Die in the Great Leap Forward: A Quick Note on non-Contemporaneous Data