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    The FT ViewThe editorial board
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    Governments must support urban areas hit by the rise in remote working

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    FT Swamp Notes
    A whiny plea to acknowledge Generation X Premium content

    Self-serving complaining shouldn’t be the monopoly of other generations

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
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    Fertility: childcare costs exacerbate the demographic drought Premium content

    Ageing populations present opportunities as well as risks for equity investors

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
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    Debt-ridden young people face the prospect of duking it out with the wealthy for a shrinking piece of the pie

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
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    UK retirement age is rising as is demand for extended home loan terms

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  • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
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    An ageing population grapples with the spectacle of the plunging yen

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  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
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  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
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    China to launch private pensions in bid to unlock vast savings stockpile

    Scheme aims to send funds flowing into country’s financial markets

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    FT SeriesBaby bust: How the pandemic affected population growth 
    Baby bust: global demographic trends create tough choices

    Population trends are too complicated to be categorised as economic destiny but neither can they be ignored

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    News in-depthFT Series
    Baby bust: How the pandemic affected population growth 

    This series examines the trend of shrinking populations, the impact of the pandemic and policymakers’ response

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    FT SeriesBaby bust: How the pandemic affected population growth 
    Baby bust: Can policymakers boost dwindling world fertility rates?

    Governments want people to have more children but there is little evidence that policy helps

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    FT SeriesBaby bust: How the pandemic affected population growth 
    Baby bust: Pandemic accelerates fall in China’s birth rate

    FT Series: Population may already have peaked in centre of global population crunch

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
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    The existing norms and expectations of our later decades need updating for the age of longevity

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
    FT SeriesBaby bust: How the pandemic affected population growth 
    Baby bust: economic stimulus helps births rebound from pandemic

    In the first in a series, the FT looks at how Covid worsened the trend of shrinking populations — but only briefly

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  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
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  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
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    Conflict has forced skilled workers to flee, compounding the impact of low birth rates and pandemic deaths

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
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