There’s an upcoming event focused on what’s been called the Silver Economy. For more on that and other international stories coming up this week, The Show was joined by BBC’s Rich Preston.

New York, NY (July 8, 2019) – Tomorrow, the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), the global business voice on aging, and the Finnish Government will host the High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy, the first-ever conference focused on global business and government leadership to reimagine aging.

New York, NY (July 3, 2019) – The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), the global business voice on aging, and the Finnish EU Council Presidency, which commences in July 2019, have joined together to organize the High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy. It is the first-ever conference focused on business and government leadership, on a global basis, to reimagine aging. The Forum will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on July 9-10 at the iconic Finlandia Hall.

The G-20, the world’s finance ministers and central bankers, are meeting in Japan. In keeping with the backdrop of Japan, the nation with the world’s fastest-aging population, global aging has made its way to the front of G-20’s agenda.

Demographics may not be destiny, but for students of geopolitics, they come close. Although conventional measures of economic and military power often receive more attention, few factors influence the long-term competition between great powers as much as changes in the size, capabilities, and characteristics of national populations.