» Dying Russia (Nicholas Eberstadt & Hans Groth, Wall Street Journal)
Link:Russia is a European country, and its population patterns are unmistakably European in a number of respects, e.g. low birth rates, rising illegitimacy ratios and immigration tensions, and an aging population. But its demographic profile and future prospects differs in two important respects that bode ill for Russia's long-term economic outlook – to say nothing of the Kremlin's ambitious goal of becoming the world's fifth-largest economy by the year 2020.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120907994764042837.html
Posted by Kevin Whited on 26 April 2008, 09:50 PM
Filed under: General, International Politics
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