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Defusing China's demographic time bomb | Hafiz Khan on AlJazeera
Will the world's most populous nation review its 'one-child policy' as an ageing society places a strain on the young? China's new leadership will soon be confronted by an enormo...
Video interview of Dr. George Leeson for JDC-ICCD Oxford
JDC - International Centre for Community Development at Oxford University has released a video interview with Dr. George Leeson on the socio-demographic impact of ageing populations. In this int...
Africa is ageing - but how prepared is the continent?
South African newspaper Business Day Live publishes an article from Dr Isabella Aboderin on Ageing in Africa. 'By 2030, there will be more people globally aged older than 60 than children un...
Marketing and Population Ageing | Norbert Meiners on Financial Times
Financial Times reports Norber Meiners Research on Ageing and Marketing. 'Norbert Meiners, a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and a specialist in older a...
Women, low earners and self-employed to benefit under new 'Single Tier' pension
BBC Today programme hears from the Prime Minister David Cameron. Ministers say their plans for a single, flat rate pension will simplify the system and ensure millions of self-employed people and m...
Chile projected to be the fastest ageing country in Latin America | Sarah Harper on 'El Pais'
By 2030, 23% of the Chilean population will exceed 60 years, which will make Chile the country with the highest ageing population in South America. Projections on Population Ageing in Latin Amer...
Why do women live longer than men? | Sarah Harper on BBC 4
Sarah Harper will give an interview on gender and longevity on Wednesday 13, Radio 4, Frontiers, at 9pm. Programme synopsis: Why do women live longer than men? In the UK today,...
Hear & Now in Malaysia Interviews Dr George Leeson
People are living longer. By 2030, 15% of the population will be over 60 years old. What will happen in this aging economy? If we are to sustain ourselves financially will we ever have the...
Citizenship, Belonging and Intergenerational Relations in African Migration
Edited by Claudine Attias-Donfut, Joanne Cook, Jaco Hoffman and Louise Waite Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, Palgrave Macmillan. This book is an exciting additionto the m...
Ethnicity and the persistence of Inequality: the case of Peru
The last in the ‘Population, Ethnicity and Migration’ seminar series will take place this Thursday 14 June from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in the Institute’s Seminar Room with a presentatio...
Key Dataset Stakeholders Meet
On Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th June 2012, key stakeholders of global ageing datasets sponsored by the National Institute of Aging met at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford. ...
ROYAL SOCIETY REPORT 'PEOPLE AND THE PLANET'
The Oxford Institue of Population Ageing has co-authored 'People and the Planet', a major policy report commissioned by the Royal Society. The study brought together 22 leading experts on ...
New OIA report: 'Access to Food in a Changing Climate'
A report from OIA and the Environmental Change Institute, 'Access to Food in a Changing Climate', examines the potential impact of future climate change for the food security of vulnerable ...
Government's Foresight Report on Migration and Environmental Change
The report 'Migration and Global Environmental Change: Future Challenges and Opportunities' has been launched at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 20th October 2011. The p...
Carers@work report briefing
Carers@work. Interviews with working carers Report briefing Kate Hamblin and Andreas Hoff The Carers@Work project sought to understand the challenges faced by working carers, and how employers ...