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Migrants may give Europe's economy a new lease of life
Most forecasters see positive impact on waning working-age populations and evaporating "potential growth" rates
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Wed, Oct 14, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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EUROPE'S ageing economy may just find the biggest refugee crisis since World War Two giving it a new lease of life - even if huge uncertainty about the future scale of immigration and how refugees are integrated cloud any long-range forecasting.
With winter approaching, the dramatic flow into Europe this year of people fleeing poverty and war in the Middle East and Africa slowed only marginally in September.
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