
The OECD’s Demographic Time Bomb: Why Governments Must Rethink Social Protection Now
Veronica Nilsson and Adnan Habibija
Ageing populations and falling birth rates threaten social protection.
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Veronica Nilsson is General Secretary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).

Veronica Nilsson and Adnan Habibija
Ageing populations and falling birth rates threaten social protection.

Having battled one crisis after another, a fresh round of austerity could be the last straw for workers.

Some claim social dialogue is a luxury in a crisis when quick decisions are needed. On the contrary, the pandemic has proved.

The Commission’s latest so-called Country Specific Recommendations on strengthening the European economy show a slightly greater emphasis on social issues: a welcome (if inadequate) shift,