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  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Style
    The laid-back charm of octogenarian style

    The everyday casual eightysomething look, with its relaxed fits, is fast becoming a favourite with millennial grandchildren

  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    Economists Exchange
    Andrew Scott: ‘We have to invest much more in our future selves’

    We’ve never expected people to be living into their 10th decade, so we’ve never planned for it. Now that must change

  • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
    Pilita Clark
    What we get wrong about ageing and work

    There is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterparts

  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    News in-depthChinese society
    Life in China’s oldest county exposes challenges of demographic crisis

    Primary schools become old people’s homes and factories struggle to find staff as population ages

  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    Liberalism’s problems are problems of success

    But solutions proposed by ‘national conservatives’ have difficulties of their own

  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
    You can’t pin workforce problems all on Gen Z

    Managers must take time to help ease the anxieties of a Covid generation

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    LexAgeing Populations
    Longevity start-ups: hefty funding fails to find fount of youth Premium content

    Human life appears to have an upper limit that has yet to be extended

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Personal Finance
    UK children receive above-inflation earnings boost

    Young people’s spending and saving habits contrast with decline in parent and guardian’s inflation-hit earnings growth

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Angela Saini
    From Russia to America, the politics of patriarchy

    Concerns about population are key to understanding how nations and their armies behave

  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Ageing populations ‘already hitting’ governments’ credit ratings

    Higher rates combined with rising pensions and healthcare costs are set to weigh on states’ finances

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    There’s no such thing as a digital native

    Technology is changing too rapidly for us to assume that the next generation will fully understand it

  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Residential property
    Bullish on the ‘burbs

    “We are at or past peak demand for urban apartments”

  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Isabel Berwick
    Stop moaning about Gen Z grads — they might teach us something

    PwC and Deloitte say new hires lack communication skills. But should these recruits conform to boomer workforce rules?

  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    German economy
    Germany looks to immigration reform to arrest worsening skills shortage

    Labour minister says legislation aims to ease entry for foreign workers, combat ‘desperate’ need for staff and tackle demographic decline

  • Monday, 1 May, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The risk of an urban doom loop for America’s old-line cities

    Ailing metropolitan centres need creative solutions from the public and private sectors

  • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
    LexPensions
    Pensions: savers should factor cognition into investing choices Premium content

    Investors must know their strengths and weaknesses

  • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
    The Big Read
    How education became the new faultline in British politics

    A growing number of voters are graduates and they are becoming less likely to back the Conservatives, threatening to redraw the country’s electoral map

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    ‘I’m 22 and I earn more than my parents’

    Young workers on high salaries find financial advice hard to come by

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Visual story
    ‘India’s century’: can the most populous nation unlock the potential of its youth?

    India could seize its demographic dividend — or squander it

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Global InsightJohn Reed
    India and China play down the big demographic news

    New Delhi and Beijing give little weight to long-projected population crossover

  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    Global migration
    World Bank calls on countries to improve their pitch to foreign workers

    Multilateral lender says economies with ageing populations must compete to attract and retain talent

  • Monday, 24 April, 2023
    India passed China as world’s most populous country in April, UN says

    Country’s population set to grow for several decades, while the number of people in China declines

  • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
    News in-depthChinese employment
    China urges jobless graduates to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and try manual work

    State media says university-leavers should put their professional ambitions on hold and consider lower-skilled roles

  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    Camilla Cavendish
    Weaponising population growth is a dangerous and regressive road

    Countries that are losing demographic ground may fall back on old tricks to force women to bear children

  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    London’s parasitical housing market is driving away young families

    Sky-high property costs are forcing thousands to flee the capital, leaving a trail of closed primary schools behind them

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