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Young and old, leading together

Express Tribune ·

In 1995, Vietnam looked almost exactly like Pakistan does today. Its median age was 22, and nearly two in three of its people were under 30. One generation later its median age is 35. Along the way it did something we have not: output per worker roughly quadrupled between 1990 and 2019. Most…

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