Sharing new insights on population issues in Singapore
15 JAN 2013
For several weeks in February, Wolfgang Lutz is meeting and working with colleagues and government officials in Singapore and giving several lectures for academics, students, and the general public. In addition, WIC demographer Bilal Barakat is spending a period of four months at the National University of Singapore to further strengthen collaboration on the analysis of education trends in India, China and Indonesia.
On 13 February, Lutz will speak at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, addressing the question, “Is Singapore’s Birth Rate too low?” That seemingly simple question is actually quite complex, depending on migration, life expectancy, and education levels, as well as economic factors. Event information.
On 18 February Lutz will give the prestigious NUSS Professorship Lecture on the topic “Singapore: Population and Human Capital”. This public lecture has been widely announced and given the current heated debates about population in Singapore has already drawn significant media attention. Event information.
On 19 February, Lutz will give a third invited lecture at the Institute of Policy Studies . In this lecture he will discuss fertility decline around the world, as well as the positive and negative impacts of this trend. In particular, Lutz will discuss how education and other factors can impact society, and how to determine what level of fertility is desirable from an economic point of view. Event information.
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.