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World Service,16 Feb 2010,25 mins

New Age (part 1)

Global Business

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In Global Business this week Peter Day explores the social and economic implications of an ageing world. As a growing proportion of older people are supported by a shrinking number of younger workers, how will we maintain productivity and what implications might this have on the world of work? Might the baby boomer generation be the key to solving the problem?

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