The first pandemic of the 21st century has brought Pyrrhic attention to one of the era’s greatest mega-trends – population ageing. Today rich countries are disproportionately affected but increasingly the world’s elderly are residents of developing countries. A policy approach that...

Recent scholarship has revised the once pessimistic view of the Chinese economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but controversy surrounds the distribution effects of economic growth. Did livelihoods improve? Who benefited from the growth? Which regions were better off? Past studies...