Tag: Demographics
13 Articles
- Society & Culture
The Necessary Paradigm Shift for South Korea’s Ultra-Low Fertility
South Korea’s unprecedented ultra-low fertility requires a paradigm shift in the country’s approach to the family. The government should take bold steps to support children…
September 24, 2024
- Society & Culture
Toward a Feminist Re-problematization of China’s Low Birth Rate
The universal relaxation of China’s one-child policy since 2016 has not produced sustained population growth as desired by Beijing. Now incentivizing births for the party…
January 6, 2023
- Science & Technology
Reconceptualizing Race and Healthcare in the Wake of COVID-19
Prior to the onset of COVID-19, healthcare expenditures represented approximately seventeen percent of the US gross domestic product (GDP), and per capita healthcare spending in…
December 14, 2020
- Science & Technology
PART II: COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Why South Korea’s Success is Hard to Replicate
As it currently stands, the legal impediments to centralized contact tracing have essentially reduced EU countries to adopt non-centralized alternatives. Most have involved…
October 19, 2020
- Science & Technology
PART I: COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Why South Korea’s Success is Hard to Replicate
It often surprises many to know South Korea and the United States both reported their first COVID-19 cases on the same day: January 20, 2020. Despite the early exposure, South…
October 12, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
What the Pandemic Reveals: Workers’ Rights in Bangladesh and Garment Supply Chains
The Pandemic EffectAt the same time, it has thrown into relief the chronic weaknesses of the Bangladeshi garment industry itself, including its “labor management” practices,…
September 3, 2020
- Dialogues
Professor Vittorio Emanuele Parsi on the International Order in a Post-Pandemic World
GJIA: In your latest book, Vulnerable: How the Pandemic Will Change the World, you describe a few possible international orders that could occur in a post-COVID-19 world. What…
July 29, 2020
- Dialogues
Dr. Gbenga Ajilore on Structural Racism and COVID-19 in the Labor Market
GJIA: Let’s start off with the big picture. Where does structural racism occur in the context of employment and the labor market, and how does this affect minorities? GA: It…
July 23, 2020
- Society & Culture
Investing in the Front Line of the COVID-19 Crisis: Young People as Partners and Leaders
In Chile, for example, a young entrepreneur named Daniela has pivoted her 3-D printing business to produce much-needed PPE components. A young business owner in Canada is…
April 30, 2020
- Business & Economics
The Battle of Ideas in the Question for Wealth and Prosperity in Brazil: Policy Proposals of a Right-Wing Government
For many, Guedes’s policy proposals to lift Brazil from a decade of mediocre economic performance are nothing more than a laundry-list of neoliberal policies. In the 1980s and…
May 17, 2019