Gray Dawn - Hardcover

Peterson, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812931955 ISBN 13: 9780812931952

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1999

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Addresses the issues associated with the world population's increasing proportion of elderly, focusing on the financial burden this will place of government agencies

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onomies of the world are on a collision course toward a huge, as-yet-unseen iceberg: global aging. Increased longevity is a blessing, but it carries with it costs and questions few countries wish to deal with. This looming demographic challenge may become the transcendent issue of the twenty-first century, affecting not just our economies but our political systems, our lifestyles, our ethics, and even our military security. In Gray Dawn, Peter G. Peterson, the respected statesman of Washington and Wall Street, sounds the warning bell and prescribes a set of detailed solutions which, if implemented early, will prevent the need for Draconian measures later.

In today's developed world, people aged 65 and over represent 14 percent of the total population. That share will almost double by 2030. In the United States, the 85-and-over set will more than triple. And fertility rates are so low in many developed nations that populations may actually fall to half of today's size before t

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0812931955
• ISBN 13: 9780812931952
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288