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The Australia-China Population Ageing Hub, in collaboration with the APRU Population Ageing Research Hub, hosted its annual workshop in July at UNSW Sydney. The event brought together academic experts, policy makers, and industry practitioners to discuss demographic change in China and its implications for policy and business practice. The second day focused on the research of young scholars working on this topic.
Keynote Presentation
Professor Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics
Nicholas Barr FRSA has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is Professor of Public Economics at the London School of Economics, the author of numerous articles, and author or editor of over twenty books, including Pension Reform: A Short Guide (with Peter Diamond) (2010, also in Chinese and Spanish). The heart of his work is an exploration of how market failures can both explain and justify the existence of welfare states. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Social Security Review and an Associate Editor of CESifo Economic Studies, the Australian Economic Review and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing.