COTTonLINE's favorite demographer, Joel Kotkin, has written an appreciation of the situation in Asia's Tigers: Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. What situation? The too-low birth rate situation.
I notice he leaves out India, which hasn't yet experienced a declining birthrate. Low birthrates are a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't proposition for developing nations. Find the
article at
Forbes.
