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Deutschland Unter Alles

Graham Watson

2nd June 2015

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There's an excellent article in today's Telegraph highlighting the fact that Germany faces a demographic time bomb and that this has potentially calamitous consequences for the German economy going forward, such that UK GDP per capita is going to overtake it, in all probability sooner than we think. It also illustrates an elementary truth about future economic growth

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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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