Diaa Noureldin on Growth Prospects in an Aging World

19/06/2025 15 min
Diaa Noureldin on Growth Prospects in an Aging World

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Most advanced economies are witnessing their populations age and labor forces shrink, and the same trend is expected to hold for the largest emerging economies within the decade. So the largely touted demographic dividend of previous decades is making way for a demographic drag. Diaa Noureldin is an economist in the World Economic Studies division in the IMF Research Department. In this podcast, he says healthy aging and policies that keep people in work longer could offset the demographic drag on growth. Transcript: https://bit.ly/4jS000P  Read the article in Finance & Development IMF.org/fandd