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Dear maria, I hope this note reaches you well. My name is Rahim Kanani and I serve as digital editor of IMF Finance & Development. I wanted to personally introduce you to our magazine and thank you for your interest. We cover cutting-edge research and analysis of key economic, finance and development issues shaping the world, and I hope you find our content both useful and action-oriented. I also wanted to share that earlier this year, the F&D team worked with some of the world's leading authorities on population trends, health, aging, migration, fertility rates and growth. These experts, inside and outside the IMF, specialize in the economic impact of changing demographics. In that vein, we just launched our Spring 2020 issue—The Long, Good Life: Demographics and Economic Well-Being. FEATURED ARTICLES: Harvard’s David E. Bloom discusses how demographics can be a potent driver of the pace and process of economic development in “Population 2020.” In “The Long, Good Life,” London Business School’s Andrew Scott explains why longer, more productive lives will mean big changes to the old rules of aging. Poh Lin Tan of the National University of Singapore digs deeper into Singapore’s experience in trying to raise its fertility rate, and draws out lessons for other countries in “Reversing Demographic Decline.” In “Shrinkanomics: Lessons from Japan,” Gee Hee Hong and Todd Schneider of the IMF discuss why Japan is the world’s policy laboratory for dealing with an aging, shrinking population. In Europe’s newest states, emigration compounds the problem of aging populations, writes Maria Petrakis in "Eastern Europe's Exodus." Giovanni Peri of the University of California, Davis, writes about how immigration can solve the demographic dilemma, but not without the right policies in “Immigrant Swan Song.” In “Getting Older but Not Poorer,” David Amaglobeli, Era Dabla-Norris, and Vitor Gaspar of the IMF argue that as societies age worldwide, pensions and public policies must adapt. Lawrence H. Summers of Harvard University writes about the need for new approaches to deal with sluggish growth in “Accepting the Reality of Secular Stagnation.” We have a number of other pieces in this issue including a stunning youth slideshow featuring individuals from India, Morocco and Uganda, a new video series featuring young women from Brazil, Ethiopia and South Korea, an interview with Somalia’s finance minister Abdirahman Dualeh Beileh, an in-depth profile of Wharton economist and founder of modern pension research Olivia S. Mitchell, why solar power is critical to meeting Africa's energy needs, and an explainer about how interest rates can be negative. With IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva recently declaring that uncertainty is the new normal, it seems fitting to also spotlight the IMF's new World Uncertainty Index. This new data set allows us, for the first time, to examine the historical evolution of uncertainty around the globe. Previous issues of F&D have focused on climate change, corruption, gender and growth, social protection, Southeast Asia, digital currencies and global debt. If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future articles or interviews, please feel free to email me directly. I would love to hear from you. Thank you again for your interest and take care. Rahim Kanani Digital Editor, F&D Magazine International Monetary Fund