The demographic shift will present huge challenges to countries' welfare, pension and healthcare systems.
But it might also represent a demographic shift against large housing that is often overpriced and unnecessary.
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The selection of a Latin American pope underscores a big demographic shift in the Catholic Church toward the region.
Even in the short term, this demographic shift could have a massive effect.
Concurrent with this demographic shift, traditional defined benefit pensions are disappearing or (as in the automotive industry) are being pared back.
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That Texas art has become more cosmopolitan is not surprising, given the demographic shift the state has experienced over the past decade.
The second is that firms big and small are threatened by a fundamental demographic shift that most have yet to adjust to.
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The huge demographic shift is already putting enormous pressure on the economy and this pressure will only grow in the next twenty years.
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And that type of rapid slowdown can be a just as strong a warning sign as a weak job market or a demographic shift.
Cardinal Bergoglio's rise comes against the backdrop of that demographic shift.
Republicans, who have now struggled through two presidential elections and are facing a demographic shift that does not work in their favor, might want to start thinking harder about their strategy on spending.
Part of the attraction for investors is a long-term demographic shift toward more families with two working parents, as well as a greater number of working mothers with young children, Mr. Lissy said.
We believe that continued high levels of population growth, demographic shift and growing middle-class in Asia Pacific region will continue to offer DuPont an expanding market for its Agricultural based products over our forecast period.
Not everyone in Phoenix is adapting so willingly to this demographic and cultural shift.
The country is going through a profound demographic and social shift.
What turns this shift from demographic accounting to a social question is the pursuit-of-happiness factor: as a rule, do people live alone because they want to or because they have to?
Renting is the logical choice for members of both of these demographic groups, and a shift on their part towards temporary occupancy appears to have contributed to a historic rise in rents during the downturn.
The demographic transition, according to this analysis, is a shift from r-type to K-type behaviour.
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This behavioral shift has triggered a need for more than just demographic modeled marketing.
The war over Kosovo in 1999, which left that province's ethnic-Albanian majority firmly in charge, has fuelled hopes among the Albanians, and fears among the Slavs, that a historic shift in favour of the Albanians is taking place across the whole region, as their demographic and economic weight rises.
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