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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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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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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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Dynamic demographics and economic growth in Vietnam

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2009
This paper is an empirical study of the effect of age-structure of population on economic growth in Vietnam. The statistics show that in recent years, Vietnam's demographics have been changing remarkably with an increase in the labor force as well as a decrease in the dependency ratio.
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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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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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Economic Implications of Demographic Change

Business Economics, 2016
The United States is in the midst of a demographic transition toward a population age structure with a higher fraction of elderly individuals. The associated growth of transfer programs for which the elderly represent most of the beneficiaries, such as Social Security and Medicare, will place upward pressure on the size of the public sector. The rising
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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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Demographic and Economic Trends

World Futures Review, 2009
Bruce Tonn, Jean Peretz
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