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Economic implications of demographic change

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1993
This paper considers the principal economic arguments surrounding the fact of rapid population growth in developing societies. It suggests that the extent of controversy which has attended this topic in the past can be greatly reduced by identifying precisely the indicators in respect of which the economic effects of population growth are judged.
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Government Size, Demographic Changes, and Economic Growth

International Economic Journal, 1994
"This paper examines the effect of government size on the growth rate of per capita output by incorporating demographic variables. Evidence from more than 86 countries suggests that the demographic variables not only affect economic growth, but also determine the size of government.
B S, Lee, S, Lin
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Savings, Demographic Change, and Economic Development

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1976
Possibly the most widely investigated adverse impact of population on economic growth is based on the hypothesized negative effect of population on the availability of savings for capital formation. Even though diminishing returns to land and natural resources due to increased population size has also constituted a long-run concern of economists, the ...
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Economic-Demographic Crises?*

2000
Abstract In his original Essay on the Principle of Population of 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus remarked on the rapid growth of the population of the United States, formerly the British North American colonies:
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Basic Approaches to the Study of Demographic Aspects of Economic Development: Economic-Demographic Models

Population Index, 1971
This survey aims to evaluate the main types of existing economic-demographic models their applicability (particularly in the less-developed countries) and their possibilities for future development and utilization. (excerpt)
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Economic and Demographic Conditions

1972
Jordan is one of the poorest countries in the Middle East. It is basically an agricultural nation, with only a few industries.
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Demographic Change and Economic Growth

2008
In this chapter we discuss the relationship between changes in a country’s age structure and its economic growth and productivity. We summarize the recent literature on the impact of a country’s age structure on economic growth and relate the results to our own empirical findings.
T. Fent, B. Mahlberg, A. Prskawetz
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Economic and Demographic Developments

2014
The reassessment of the driving forces leading to the French Revolution provoked the rejection of the traditional Marxist interpretation according to which the Revolution was led by an emerging capitalistic bourgeoisie strengthened by long-term industrial and trade growth, and the emergence of interpretations based on political and ideological ...
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Demographic Economics: 21st century Japan

2020
Japan has a population of about 127 million, the eleventh largest in the world, however it is peculiar to note that its population is declining steadily. Few other countries such as Italy, Germany and Russia too have declining populations, but none is estimated to fall as quickly as the population of Japan.
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The demographics of macro-economic-demographic models.

Population bulletin of the United Nations, 1990
A number of macro-economic-demographic models have been created for developing countries during the decades of the 1970s and 1980s. Such models purport to simulate relationships between demographic variables and the process of socioeconomic development in the particular country, with the dual purposes of enhancing our knowledge of the process in ...
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