On today's programme, China sees a historic fall in birth rate with consequences for its economy and the world.

The Bank of Japan will decide on its latest course of monetary policy, we discuss what it might mean.

Rahul Tandon is joined throughout the programme by Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan and Isin Elicin, a freelance journalist based in Istanbul in Turkey. (Picture: A nurse takes care of a newborn baby in a maternity hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province. Credit; Getty Images)