Meanwhile, a policy of aggressively pursuing immigration to address the shrinking population has created resentment among locals.
Japan must come to grips with its rapidly ageing and soon-to-be shrinking population.
The Cleveland Clinic health system is located in a shrinking population center.
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Firstly, its shrinking population is also an ageing one in which the labour force will decline as a share of the population.
And with an ageing and shrinking population, no one should assume that sustained economic expansion will allow utilities to earn their way out of the hole over time.
Fast Retailing faces a stagnant economy and shrinking population at home, and its future growth depends on its ability to continue to churn out affordable, fashionable wear elsewhere.
The trend is even more striking in Michigan, which owes some of its dramatic fall in unemployment to a shrinking population and a labour force that fell 8% between 2006 and 2011.
The Japanese auto market has already been declining steadily over many years due to its aging and shrinking population, rapid urbanization, leading to space constraints in many Japanese cities and high tax burden on car owners.
The reason: Even assuming that Japan's economy grows at a moderate rate (an optimistic assumption given its shrinking population), the deficit would continue to expand at least until 2005, at which point gaps in Japan's pension system would start to appear.
He traces the entire history of the company and shows how the unconventional thinking championed by Mori will be vital as Japan faces the challenges of recovering from a devastating tsunami while dealing with a shrinking population and a turbulent global economy.
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The culmination of more than two years of study and 30, 000 conversations with the public, Detroit Future City is less a master plan and more a guidebook that lays out a path for how Detroiters can begin the gargantuan task of rebuilding a decaying city that can no longer afford to provide even the most basic services to its shrinking population.
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This week the government moved to help rescue a tiny newspaper still read by Istanbul's shrinking Greek population.
Meanwhile, local governments across the country will have to cope with a fast-rising population of retired people whose pensions, if any, will have to be paid for by contributions from a shrinking working population.
Further ahead, Germany has to cope with a shrinking and ageing population, a fast-growing public debt and the need to switch from dependence on exports towards more consumption.
The recovery in Chinese tourism, which started around September, serves as a reminder of how Japan relies on China's powerful economic growth to prop up its own economy ailing from a long malaise and a shrinking and aging population.
That trend is set to continue, not least because the Russian population is shrinking.
Its native population is shrinking and ageing fast, and the country does not welcome immigrants.
These examples are instructive to other communities facing the same issues of growing population, shrinking water supply and increasing energy cost.
It added that it will take in between 15, 000 and 25, 000 new citizens each year to "stop our citizen population from shrinking".
The workforce is shrinking while its elderly population is expected to explode.
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The decline among the least educated non-Hispanic whites, who make up a shrinking share of the population, widened an already troubling gap.
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Yet while city government is broken, population is shrinking and many services are lacking, downtown Detroit is booming, thanks to private investment from entrepreneurs like Gilbert and Ilitch.
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For all the hostility to foreign influence, Italy is creeping towards an unplanned compromise with the world in which companies' international expansion benefits those who stay at home and foreign workers fill a hole created by the shrinking of the native population.
The working-age population is shrinking.
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There are, I am told, around 30 to 35 care homes that Southern Cross would have wanted to close in any circumstances either because they are too small, older and not quite fit for purpose or because they are in areas where the elderly population is shrinking.
Japan's population may be shrinking, but the Japanese crave bigger homes like everyone else.
Western Europe's working-age population is already shrinking, though not as fast as Japan's.
Sure enough, application of the PND immediately shows that the world's population is actually shrinking slightly, except in Denmark.
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