Please join me as I explore the surprises coming with Climate Change, the Pandemic and the War in Ukraine from a background of studying development in 40 nations.
The pandemic is a bankruptcy story. Large firms can use bankruptcy to restructure. Small firms will close to avoid bankruptcy.
New vaccines and medicines for the Coronavirus will be weapons of war and matters of national security.
Spain, like Italy, is facing major population declines looking into the future. This implies pressure on its economy to fund the pensions of an aging society, and cultural pressures integrating a growing immigrant population from Africa.
China had a fertility rate of 2.9 children per woman in 1979, but today it is closer to 1.5. And this is despite government efforts t encourage child birth. The relative collapse of China’s population has huge economic, social and political implications.
Mini nuclear sites to power electric tanks and armoured vehicles. More power from less fuel.
