A world of demographic booms and busts

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A world of demographic booms and busts
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THE earnest discussions of a forthcoming Malthusian doom have so receded into the background that even the most frenzied doom-mongering at the fringe has mostly vanished.

The three biggest economies whose combined GDP exceeds those of 100 small countries are drying up, not on the resources and food side but on a sustainable population that can arrest the precarious graying. Japan, the third biggest, China, the second, and the US, the leader, now confront aging populations and either shrinking or stagnant birth rates, a toxic combination that leads to sclerotic societies. And emptied-out rural areas.

There are two classic answers to sterile population growths. Place birth rates on the fast track which neither legislation nor executive fiats can do. Or, open up the borders to desired types of immigrants. Of the major economies, only Canada has decisively found the solution: opening up the country some more to skilled immigrants.

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