DRUCKER (noted management expert): “The birthrate collapse has tremendous political and social implications that we cannot even guess at today… Of all developments, it is the most spectacular, the most unexpected and one that has no precedent whatsoever.”
EBERSTADT (former Rockefeller Foundation researcher): “Nearly half the planet’s populace [have] sub-replacement fertility levels.” This has led to problems such as “how to finance old-age retirement for a rapidly aging citizenry and questions for East Asia related to a looming bride shortage.”
FAZIO (governor of the Bank of Italy): “It is urgent that the number of births increase… in 20-30 years time the deficit of births will have repercussions on economic and social development.”