Benn Steil's Forbes op-ed takes a critical look at the economics behind the Obama Administration's free-contraception insurance mandate.

Joseph Coughlin and Kelly Michel discuss how a healthy and active aging population can contribute to economic growth, and the public policy reform, new business strategies, and profound shifts in views on aging necessary to take advantage of this opportunity.

Peter Orszag examines recent U.S. trends in retirement to better understand how the weak economy is affecting older workers.

Michael Hodin urges U.S. presidential candidates to consider how women can be economically empowered in their senior years.

Michael Hodin urges G-20 leaders to think beyond short-term crisis management and create long-term policies that promote economic productivity among the aging.

As the world's population surpasses seven billion, CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health Yanzhong Huang identifies the variety of ways in which different global regions are impacted by population growth. Huang argues that a region- and issue-specific approach is needed to address population issues.

A growing population will add pressures to the world and the environment, and there must be greater focus on women's education and reproductive health, says demographic expert John Bongaarts.

This UNFPA report looks at population trends around the world and argues that the right investments in people can produce positive outcomes, even as the world's population passes seven billion.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been gripped by a devastating population crisis almost unprecedented during peacetime.

Michael W. Hodin says Australia's recognition that its economic success in the coming decades hinges on dealing with aging populations is a step in the right direction, but a paradigm shift that enables a reasonable percentage of individuals over age sixty-five to remain economically active still needs to occur.

Also known as the Cairo Concensus, the Cairo Declaration on Population and Development was written at the International Conference on Population and Developmentin November, 1994.

New books by Witold Rybczynski and Edward Glaeser celebrate the ever-changing American urban experience.

Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.

Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection.

Prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, this report provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment for how prepared countries are to address the challenges of aging populations.

Trends in global aging in the coming decades pose serious fiscal challenges to developed and developing nations unless longstanding social policies are revamped, says CFR's Michael Hodin.

With global food prices again soaring to record levels, experts say policies are needed to bolster agriculture production and reduce trade barriers, particularly by the United States.

This Standard & Poor's study evaluates the profound economic and policy impacts of a rapidly aging global population.

Global demographics in the twenty-first century will be defined by steep declines in fertility rates. Many countries will see their populations shrink and age.

Experts discuss the effect of global aging on public policy and investor communities in relation to predicated health and social costs, as part of CFR's Corporate Program and the Roundtable Series on Aging Populations.