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April 21 |
Global Aging Forum: Why Social Security Reform Still Matters
With the long-term budget projections dominated by rising expenditures on Medicare and Medicaid, is Social Security reform really that important? Dr. Andrew Biggs, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Principal Deputy Commissioner at the Social Security Administration, made the case that it matters a lot—and shareed his insights on how it might play out in the next administration.
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March 31 |
Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century
AUDIO 1 (mp3, 01:30:49) | AUDIO 2 (mp3, 01:29:39) |The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century, a report of the CSIS Global Aging Initiative, was released at a CSIS Policy Forum on March 31, 2008. The report explores how population aging and population decline will constrain the ability of the United States and other developed countries to maintain national and global security over the next few decades. It also examines the security implications of emerging demographic trends in different regions of the developing world. While some political scientists and security experts argue that the forces of demography are pushing the world toward greater peace and stability, the CSIS report concludes that they pose growing security threats—and that the period of greatest danger lies just over the horizon in the 2020s. The CSIS Policy Forum will begin with a presentation by the authors on the report’s key findings. A panel of distinguished experts will then comment on the report and offer their views on the geopolitical dimensions of the “global aging challenge.”
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January 9 |
Global Aging Forum: Will Boomers Work Longer?—New Evidence on the Determinants of Retirement
In recent years, there has been much speculation that Boomers will initiate a major shift in retirement behavior, reversing the long-term trends toward early and all-or-nothing retirement. Dr. Mark Warshawsky, Director of Retirement Research at Watson Wyatt, and Dr. Gaobo Pang, Senior Research Associate at Watson Wyatt, surveyed the evidence and discussed the results of new Watson Wyatt research on the retirement decision.
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