China: Easing one-child policy may not slow aging population [video]

China could ease its one-child policy to address a rapidly aging population — but as Jane Lee reports, rules aren’t the only thing stopping Chinese families from expanding.

http://youtu.be/0XAYxilsEJc

Australia: Not fiscal cliff — fiscal flab

Jessica Irvine writes that Australia is faced with an aging population and spiraling health costs, but a free-spending government will leave us unprepared.

Two veteran Budget forecasting groups, Deloitte Access Economics and Macroeconomics, have in recent days delivered their verdict on Mr Swan’s mid-year Budget update: It’s codswallop. The Federal Budget is not in surplus by $1.1 billion this year but in deficit by $4.2 billion, according to Deloitte, and $7 billion, according to Macroeconomics…..

via We're afflicted with the same fiscal flab most governments struggle with | thetelegraph.com.au.