Economics
Aging Populations Require Policy Response: G-20 Finance Update
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How to cope with aging populations was among the talking points during the Group of 20 nations finance ministers and central bank chiefs meetings in Fukuoka.
Officials discussed the need to roll out a suite of policy responses including fiscal, monetary, financial and structural. Measures to boost productivity and growth by investing in skills and getting more women into the work force were among the ideas that were weighed, according to a final draft of the communique that Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.