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Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries : A Comparative Perspective
Camps-Cura, Enriqueta - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019
Special Reference to the United States -- Chapter 4: World Population Growth and Fertility Patterns, 1960-2010: A Simple Model … Explaining the Evolution of the World’s Fertility – The Americas in a Comparative Framework -- Chapter 5: The Economic Geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398621
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New Frontiers in Interregional Migration Research
Biagi, Bianca (ed.); Faggian, Alessandra (ed.);  … - 2018
developing world by comparing different regions around the globe. The book updates and revisits the main academic debates in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256184
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The 2018 Global Migration Compact : A Major Breakthrough or an Opportunity Lost or Both?
Ghosh, Bimal - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
1. Why a multilateral agreement on migration is so important and yet why so difficult to achieve it -- 2. How valid are these constraints -- 3. Attempts at reaching a multilateral agreement on migration: a synoptic history -- 4. The New York Declaration and the 2018 Global Compact on Migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793258
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Demografischer Wandel und Wirtschaft
Budliger, Hendrik (ed.) - 2021
Peak-Konsum -- Die Auswirkungen von Bevölkerungsschrumpfung und -alterung auf das Rentenversicherungssystem in Deutschland -- Was taugen die Vorhersagen? Regionale Unterschiede in der demografischen Entwicklung, Ursachen und Zukunftsprognosen -- Die Generationenökonomie -- Auswirkungen des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496251
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Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East : Diversity in Collapse and Resilience
Erdkamp, Paul (ed.); Manning, Joseph G. (ed.);  … - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
Roman period -- Chapter 15: Viticulture as a climate proxy for the Roman world? Global warming as a comparative framework … families in the Roman World -- Chapter 17: Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement … Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. He teaches Ancient History, specializing in the Roman World, with a particular interest in economy …
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Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets
R. Stough, Roger (ed.); Kourtit, Karima (ed.);  … - 2018
The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local - labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396992
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The Political Economy of Population Aging : Japan and the United States
Terai, Kimiko; Glazer, Amihai; Miyazato, Naomi - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
Population Aging and Political Economy -- Expenditure on Public Investment -- Expenditure on Education -- Expenditure on welfare -- Interregional Tax Competition -- Comparison of Japan and the US -- Concluding Remarks.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627333
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The Great Demographic Reversal : Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
Goodhart, Charles; Pradhan, Manoj - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the world’s available labour supply, owing to very favourable … demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these … expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399651
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The Creation of the East Timorese Economy : Volume 2: Birth of a nation
Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019.
1. A Poor Young Nation -- 2. From Independence to Turmoil -- 3. Political, Economic and Social Developments 2007-2018 -- 4. Population Growth and Job Creation: The Search for a Modern Sector -- 5. The Agricultural Sector -- 6. Oil and the Resource Curse -- 7. Conclusions and a Look to the Future.
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How to Feed the World
Eise, Jessica (ed.); Foster, Kenneth Alan (ed.) - 2018
By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet … this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial … the World unites contributors from different perspectives and academic disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to …
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