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Demographic Change - Like a Python Swallowing a Pig

Geoff Riley

5th January 2017

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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 nearly forty 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 and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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