Essays on Population Ageing

Introduction

Population ageing is currently viewed as most wide-spread demographic trend. Decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy have tremendously altered the ratio between the young and old in current population of the world. Global UN research on population ageing (2007) suggests that population ageing is concerned with four salient aspects, such as being unprecedented in human history; pervasiveness of the trend, which is now affecting almost all parts of the world; enduring nature of the trend (the situation is not likely to be subjected to significant changes; and, what is more important, the trend’s having profound consequences for almost ...

Zhongguo, which is another name for China in Mandarin, means Middle Kingdom when translated to English. China is also called the Center of the Universe ("9a. the middle"). The Chou people of the Zhou Empire, who had occupied the North China Plain in 1000 B.C., were unaware of the Western civilizations, and believed that they were living at the center of the earth. Today, although “Middle Kingdom” is regarded as more of a retrospective and subjective term by the rest of the world, while the one quarter of the world's population in China still believe that they are at the ...

L'Oreal Group is the largest hygiene and beauty company that operates in the field of hair colour and care, make-up, and perfumes. It is comprised of 27 brands and operates in 130 countries. L'Oreal was first founded in 1907 by Eugene Schueller, a French chemist, and over more than a century of its existence L’Oreal was transformed from a small French company to major global corporation.

Part I: Situation Analysis

A. Analysis of the firm

The firm’s mission is “to offer all women and men worldwide the best of cosmetics innovation in terms of quality, efficacy and safety”. It targets a wide variety of customers ...