The challenges of an aging population.

 

Fuente: dominicantoday.
Santo Domingo – Necessary reforms of the Social Security System must be undertaken to ensure a decent pension for retirees and quality healthcare for the entire population. Given the statement made by Ricardo Hausmann, professor at Harvard University, at a recent conference in the country, that one of the gaps that the country has been closing in relation to developed nations is that Dominican families now have more workers per capita because they are smaller and have fewer children, some might think, without this being the intention of the renowned economist, that the condition of having small families is in itself beneficial for the development of a nation. This is not the case. The important thing is that the members of the families have a high productivity; that is, the […]