Migrants Go Home
History shows that during economic crises migrants suffer. Like their predecessors in the 1930s and the 1970s, many migrants are now returning home.
History shows that during economic crises migrants suffer. Like their predecessors in the 1930s and the 1970s, many migrants are now returning home.
Because today’s new buildings will be around for decades, constructing them with the elderly in mind will profit everyone. Kai Fischer, Head of Construction Finance at Allianz Germany, explains ‘barrier-free living’ and how to do it right.
Governments have adopted various family planning and population control policies, often with totally different results. See what worked and what didn’t.
Is the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire just a Hollywood fantasy? K. Laxmi Narayan, an expert in Indian urbanization at the University of Hyderabad, doesn’t think so. He reports that half of Mumbai residents live in slums and warns that both Indian cities and the countryside are chronically overcrowded.
The workforce is growing old. For the first time, there are fewer new entrants on the European labor market than people approaching or entering retirement.
As the world population grows toward 9 billion, there will be a greater demand for new or revitalized infrastructure. This opens many investment opportunities, explains researcher Stefan Scheurer.
At first it was just a question of meeting the legal quotas. But Mondial Assistance Brasil soon realized the advantages of employing disabled people.
If a country’s capital embodies the nation, then Rome, the eternal city, symbolizes Italian demographic trends. Italy is the old man of Europe, and rapidly getting older.
