Demographics of China: The impact on the Chinese economy from the one-child policy to today

China's population has fallen for the first time in six decades, official statistics revealed earlier this year. Will this be a long term problem for the world's second-largest economy? Together with economics professor Alessia Amighini we will have a look on the establishment of the one-child policy in China, analysing its impact on demographics and the economic effects that this decision caused. The webinar explores concepts such as the demographic dividend, the age and gender imbalance over time and the decline in fertility.

Speaker

Alessia Amighini is an Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Eastern Piedmont and Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Asia program of ISPI. She has been a visiting scholar at the Department of International Business and Economics of the University of Greenwich and an economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. She has published numerous articles on the Chinese economy and the expansion of Chinese companies overseas in international academic journals such as China Economic Review, China and the World Economy, International Economics, World Development, World Economy.

Moderator

Flavia Gizzi is a Master's degree graduate in Interpreting and Translation, she has always had a great passion for foreign languages and cultures, especially for China and its language. Flavia is currently enrolled in a Master's degree programme for International Functions and Development Cooperation at SIOI, the Italian Society for International Organization and the United Nations in Italy.