have not had the benefits of good infrastructures their entire life.
So the population in the world as
these young people age becomes more and more problematic.
Because of where they live.
>> Well, Carol, you've presented some numbers that can be really surprising if
not shocking and I remember in our conversation you mentioned that even
you were rather impressed by the numbers that you were uncovering.
What most shocked you or what comments do you have about?
>> What surprised me when I really looked at it more in depth,
although I knew the facts before that, but the dramatic numbers really impressed me.
Is that the vast bulk of the population is growing in
places that can't handle the numbers.
And can't handle them when they're young and
are even less likely to handle them when they're older.
And that this is also the circumstances
that leads to protest and violence.
That when young people have no resources and have no options,
then this is much more likely to be an explosive situation and
this looks like this could become very problematic and
dangerously so I don't want to be a bring a terrible prophecy.
But the numbers game is way beyond what I think anyone is really expecting.
And when you add to that the other problems of climate change,
loss of crop land, loss of adequate water,
then you have a recipe for bad things to happen potentially.
>> And as the populations now, the younger populations grow older,
unless governments make some dramatic decisions and changes,
I suspect we're going to find an older population over the next 50 years or
whatever, that's similar to the older population that we have now.
That is, particularly in developing countries,
we find women who are older, illiterate to a great extent,
living in rural areas, perhaps isolated.
It will take some dramatic policy changes to change that situation,
which seems to be very much the situation now, in poor countries.
Relating, particularly, to women.
>> The situation in poor countries is that way.
The difference is going to be is that the numbers are going to be even greater.
So I think of women as having six different challenges
in addition to the challenges that the men might have in those same countries.
So the first is that the women in general are much poorer.
That they are outside of the formal economy in most places.
And that the developing countries, are very poor social security investment.
Indonesia is 10% of salary, and China is 20% of salary.
But that's much more so
in the formal economy, which is in either government or industry.
And women are much less likely to be in those sectors of the economy.
And the women are in the informal economy which tends to
pay less at every, stage and not have old age benefits.
So the informal economy of child care and of home care,
management of the home is not considered within
the statistics that are looked at for economics, and
the contribution that women make is not considered a valuable economic asset.
And women are therefore both considered more useless
economically and in fact are more poor because
they don't have access to the formal economy.