Poland performed well in global obesity rankings until relatively recently. Today, that is no longer the case. As with other parts of the industrialised world, the...
Tag - Demographics
A new report from the OECD offers a few clues as to how Estonia – and other countries in the region – can manage their falling populations. Estonia’s...
Amid challenges related to an ageing population, automation, and Europe’s relative decline, CEE’s businesses have to reinvent themselves. The German...
Falling birth rates are not an existential crisis for Central and Eastern Europe, but an opportunity
Central and Eastern Europe’s demographic decline has until now been presented by nationalist governments as an existential problem. But are policy makers looking at the...
Millions of Ukrainian pensioners are living below the poverty line – and with prices for food products and utilities constantly rising, their situation may yet get...
Ukraine has emerged as a key player in a niche but growing global market – commercial surrogacy. While the procedure has been of enormous financial benefit to many...
How many people in Montenegro identify as Montenegrins? A new census is about to find out, with implications for the country’s increasingly fraught relationship...
Never before in European history have so many people enjoyed such long and healthy lives. This, however, creates as many challenges as opportunities, especially in those...
Urbanisation can bring economic benefits to Central Asia, but formal and informal barriers to internal migration are hampering movement away from rural areas. The World...
As the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis continues to spread, the amount of money migrant workers send home is projected to decline 14 per cent globally by 2021 when...
The World Bank last week published its latest outlook for emerging Europe for Central Asia, and offered some cautious cause for optimism: not least the prospect that...
A new Slovak bill limiting access to abortion – proposed by the populist OĽaNO (Ordinary People) party MP Anna Záborská – adds to a heap of similar laws that...
