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The Wide Angle: The End of Population Growth

Sanyal, Sanjeev - eSocialSciences - 2011

The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.

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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011

The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the period 1960 to the late 1980s, Indiaâ€™s GDP in US...

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Three Conundrums in Measuring Poverty with a Changing Population

Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006

This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way, constructing three scenariosâ€”population growth, population decline, and a constant population size that nevertheless churns around a constant income distribution to illustrate...

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The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries

Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan - eSocialSciences - 2010

Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relatively optimistic projections suggest that family planning and female education will suffer from...

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Snakes, Ladders and Traps: Changing Lives and Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)

Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some households have gained, while others have failed to gain, in the processes of change involved. The analysis is...

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Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development

Cohen, Joel E. - eSocialSciences - 2010

This essay reviews important demographic trends expected to occur between 2010 and 2050, indicates some of their implications for economic and global development, and suggests some possible policies to respond to these trends and implications. The century from 1950 to 2050 will have witnessed...

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Clean Water Should Be Recognized as a Human Right

Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2009

Access to clean water should be declared a basic human right for three reasons. First, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden of disease caused by water-borne infections. Second, the privatization of waterâ€”as witnessed in Bolivia, Ghana, and other...

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Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Ferri, Cleusa P; Acosta, Daisy - eSocialSciences - 2012

Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …€™s proportional hazards regression. Cause-specific mortality fractions were estimated using the InterVA algorithm. Crude mortality …

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Government wage policy formulation in developing countries : seven country studies

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Social security for the excluded majority : case studies of developing countries

Ginneken, Wouter van (ed.) - 1999 - 1. publ.

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