Enrichment
Demographic Change - Like a Python Swallowing a Pig
Geoff Riley
5th January 2017
How is population change transforming our world? One idea is to think of a python swallowing a pig: a big bulge makes its way slowly down the snake from the head end to the other end
A new edition of The New World on BBC Radio 4 considers some of the key consequences of demographic change in advanced and emerging countries. Click here to listen.
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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