The first pandemic of the 21st century has brought Pyrrhic attention to one of the era's greatest megatrends - population ageing. Today rich countries are disproportionately affected but increasingly the world's elderly are residents of developing countries. In rich and poor countries alike, a...

The first pandemic of the 21st century has brought Pyrrhic attention to one of the era’s greatest megatrends – population ageing. Today rich countries are disproportionately affected but increasingly the world’s elderly are residents of developing countries. In rich and poor countries...

This is the third report in ODI’s Economic Pulse series. Pulse 3 explores China’s international economic response as it recovers, reforms, and restructures its economy amidst an uncertain global recovery. This is as China moves on from more reactive policy measures to contain the pandemic...

China's outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical capital investment, all had a role in China's diminished...

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...

China brokered its first loan to a developing country in 1960. Half a century later it began to emerge as a major player in official development finance. It did so an independent creditor operating mainly outside of the official finance frameworks that dominated the second half of the 20th...