Director's Spotlight: Peter McDonald delivers the Eighth Sadli Lecture
Delivering the prestigious Sadli lecture in Indonesia in April this year, Peter McDonald discussed the implications of Indonesia's population growth and distribution for its economy as well as the poor quality of demographic data.
In the context of concerns within Indonesia that the present level of population growth is an obstacle to continued economic development, Peter suggested that with the right policy settings Indonesia can continue to reduce its fertility without negatively impacting labour supply or population ageing. The lecture was based on a commissioned paper published in the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. Read the article
COTA NSW Parliamentary Forum "Paying the Price: Women, Work and Care"
CEPAR's Rafal Chomik was invited by the Council on the Ageing to speak at a recent forum in NSW Parliament House. The well attended forum was opened by the Minister for Ageing, the Hon. John Ajaka MLC, and included speakers from the Human Rights Commission, Westpac, and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
Chomik said: "It might be obvious to many that the gender wage gap and career breaks to care for children and the elderly translate to lower retirement incomes, but the extent of the accumulation of inequality and how the pension system intermediates it is not always fully appreciated.”
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