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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition [PDF]

For decades, economists and social thinkers have debated the influence of population change on economic growth. Three alternative positions define this debate: that population growth restricts, promotes, or is independent of economic growth.
David Canning, David E. Bloom, Jaypee Sevilla   +2 more
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Health, demographic transition and economic growth [PDF]

This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is
Jorgensen, Ole Hagen
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Annexes

Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2004
Latin America: 63 millions inhabitants in 1900, 562 millions in 2005, nearly 9 times more. This extraordinary population growth is explained by the demographic transition started about 1930, i.e.
Maria Eugenia Cosio-zavala, Valeria López Gareri   +1 more
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From Bonus to Onus: Taiwan’s Demographic Transition and Economic Development from 1950 to 2020

Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review
The driving force behind population change lies in fertility. Over the past 70 years, Taiwan has undergone a fertility transition, rapidly declining from a high peak of natural fertility levels to an ultralow rate.
Kuang-Ho Yeh, Guihua Ni
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Lifetime reproduction and the second demographic transition: Stochasticity and individual variation

, 2015
BACKGROUND In the last half of the previous century many developed countries went through a period of decreasing fertility rates, referred to as the second demographic transition.
S. V. Daalen, H. Caswell
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Demographic Transition and Youth Employment in Pakistan [PDF]

There is convincing evidence that Pakistan has entered the demographic bonus phase; child dependency is declining and youth share in the total population is rising.
G. M. Arif, Nusrat Chaudhry
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impact of reproductive health services on armed conflict in Afghanistan

The Journal of Population and Sustainability, 2019
Reduction of child mortality while coverage of family planning services remains low may render Afghanistan a testing ground for the theory of demographic transition.
Stewart Britten, Wahida Paikan
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Overview Chapter 6: The diverse faces of the Second Demographic Transition in Europe [PDF]

This chapter discusses the concept of the second demographic transition (SDT) and its relevance for explaining the ongoing changes in family and fertility patterns across Europe.
Tomas Sobotka
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HUMAN CAPITAL DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH [PDF]

This paper extends the literature on economic growth and demographic change by developing a neo-classical model of endogenous growth in which both economic and demographic outcomes are jointly determined. The key point in this model is the endogenisation
Haitham Issa
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The demographic transition: model and reality

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 1981
The demographic transition model is tested against the observed or estimated birth and death rates a (recent) year in the countries of the world. The calibration of the model may have been realistic for European countries which made the transition over a
Gunnar Alexandersson
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