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Demographics: The Ratio of Revolution
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011The demographic metrics and inflationary circumstances that framed the January 2011 revolution in Egypt’s Tahrir Square were almost identical to those prevailing in Japan during their violent 1968 student-led revolts, in the United States when millions demonstrated against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s to early 1970s and in China when hundreds of ...
David Munro, Claudia Zeisberger
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European Review, 1999
Ten non-violent revolutions are considered, characteristic for the second half of the 20th century, that profoundly changed our world and our perception of it. Perhaps the most important of those, the demographic revolution, resulted in unprecedented changes both in population size and structure. An attempt is made to analyse the ‘big perhaps’, some of
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Ten non-violent revolutions are considered, characteristic for the second half of the 20th century, that profoundly changed our world and our perception of it. Perhaps the most important of those, the demographic revolution, resulted in unprecedented changes both in population size and structure. An attempt is made to analyse the ‘big perhaps’, some of
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The demographic revolution and our common future
Maturitas, 2001The global population reached two billion people in 1927 and six billion in 1999. If the medium variant projection of the United Nations were to materialize, the Earth's population would reach nine billion in 2054. However, such a brave new world will be inhabited by a brave old humankind; in 2050, 16.4% of the world population and 27.6% of the ...
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Industrial Revolutions and Demographic Transitions
2000We generalize the class of growth models in which the scale of the economy has level rather than growth effects, and study the implications of different demographic and research policies when both fertility choice and research effort are endogenous.
Michelle Connolly, Pietro F. Peretto
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The Revolution in Mental Attitudes and Demographic Revolution
1992Abstract It is in fertility studies that this imbalance is strongest. Reading the innumerable works addressed to possible causes of secular fertility declines, one is impressed by the great confusion which exists on the subject. ‘The map of fertility [in France, in 1861] recalls no known economic, cultural or religious structure ...
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Two revolutions: Digital and demographic
UN Chronicle, 2018The progressive digitalization of the world has an unprecedented impact on every sphere of our lives. Over the past 20 years, technology has permeated every aspect of modern society, and the use of digital technology, in particular, is becoming an integral part of our everyday lives.
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The industrial revolution and the demographic transition [PDF]
, 2008 In the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution. It’s commonly believed that this era opened as new inventions improved the technologies used to produce goods and provide services.
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Demographic Transition and Industrial Revolution: A Coincidence? [PDF]
, 2006 All industrialized countries experienced a transition from high birth rates and stagnant standards of living to low birth rates and sustained growth in per capita income. What contributed to this transformation? Were output and population dynamics driven by common or separate forces?
Oksana Leukhina, Michael Bar
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[Aging of the population: the 2d demographic revolution].
La Clinica terapeutica, 1990The extension of the duration of life and the growth of elderly population stimulate the neuropharmacology to research new preparations and consequently to develop new methodic of research. At present a project of research started by Glaxo and coordinated by the Centre for Geriatric and Gerontology of Modena University on "The use of a methodology to ...
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