Demography and the labour market are two important aspects that will have to be discussed in connection with possible Turkish membership of the European Community. The following article discusses these aspects primarily with regard to the situation in the EC and in Germany, which in the past was...

Approaches in the United Nations to solve the problems resulting from world population trends - the so-called "population explosion" in the countries of the Third World - as part of the North-South cooperation are not new; nor are they without their critics. The author discusses the differing...

In December 1970, the General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1974 as World Population Year. Herewith, the Assembly was giving recognition to the growing involvement of the United Nations System in the population field and to the need for focussing international attention on different...