COVID-19 Causes Birth Rates to Dip, But Numbers Not Important Here
The focus on birth rates misses the point, writes Alanna Armitage on today’s World Population Day (July 11). What matters is building countries where people want to stay, live and have families. The COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated, at least temporarily, the global trend towards lower fertility rates. Statistics from late 2020—nine months after the…
Revolution of Choice
Three decades, roughly a generation, after the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia emerged from the collapse of Communism and embarked on the path to market economy and democracy, the region is now in the middle of a new and different kind of revolution. It is what I would call a revolution of choice.…
