The coming century stands to witness an extraordinary worldwide aging of the human population, and the emergence of aged societies will present citizens and policymakers around the world with challenges unknown to their predecessors. Will working populations support ever larger numbers of long-lived retirees? How will aging pressures affect national...

China’s economic performance over the past three decades—its rapid growth, economic opening, and strides in poverty alleviation—marks an historic turn that may qualify as one of the great “success stories” of modern economic development. China seems poised for further rapid growth today—but questions and uncertainties cloud the longer-term horizon. Can...

The "globalization" that produced the tremendous surge in world output over the past two hundred years has entailed not only trade flows and international capital flows, but a dramatic international movement of human beings in pursuit of economic opportunity. But does international migration still have a role in promoting development...

This book examines questions and uncertainties about China's rapid growthand whattheir resolution will mean for the United States.

The author introduces Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University, who researches political economy and world mass migration.

Based on an estimation of all taxes paid and benefits received for each generation born between 1850 and 2090, today's youth will be the biggest winners.

Vice President and Mrs. Cheney, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

My colleagues and I are very grateful to the Dinner Committee and to our stalwart friends who have purchased and sold tickets...

Rev. Childs, thank you for leading us in that stirring musical benediction. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the American Enterprise Institute’s 1995 annual dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture.

This gathering is substantially the...