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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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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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The demographics and economics of complementary alternative medicine

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2004
Limitations of data in regard to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) concern the tendency to lump types of CAM into broad areas and the lack of strong scientific evidence. Insurance benefit coverage is limited often to two or three types of CAM and is often consumer driven. Scientific evidence is used to justify noncoverage.
Justin, Lundgren, Vivian, Ugalde
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The Demographic and Economic Perspective

1987
The recognition of a relationship between the size of a nation’s population and its potential labour force has long been accepted by economists. When Adam Smith (1970, p. 62) expressed the view that the prosperity of a country was dependent upon the increase in the number of its inhabitants, he was acknowledging the relationship between economic change
A. T. Mallier, M. J. Rosser
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Migration in an Economic-Demographic Model for the Canadian Provinces [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1985
This paper is a description of the structure of a multiregion economic-demographic model for the Canadian provinces. An important part of the demographic model is the estimation of net migration equations based on a human capital approach and incorporating the adding-up constraint that arises since the sum of the net migration flows across all ...
W J Milne, D K Foot, D P Dungan
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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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Caaip in Context: An Economic-Demographic Critique

Journal of the Australian Population Association, 1988
"Gross immigration to Australia in 1988 will total about 160,000 persons or about one per cent of the existing population. This is more than double Australia's 1983 intake of about 70,000 and is a high intake compared with other major Western receiving countries.
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Demographic Change and Economic Development

Studies in Contemporary Economics, 1989
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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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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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