3 Responses

1. people who work on youth issues have tried in the last few years to get away from this tired-ass “time-bomb” analogy. it’s not very helpful to frame kids as a *problem* to be confronted, especially when you’re trying to do positive youth-led development work. we’ve got to get governments instead to see their youthful populations as an opportunity to be harnessed.

2. Time to read ‘Collapse’ by Jared Diamond, perhaps?

3. The variation in the y-axis across the graphs is quite deceiving.