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Population Aging, Fertility and Social Security
Yakita, Akira - 2017
and Diamond. Taking into account families’ fertility decisions, it examines not only the demographic changes due to longer …Introduction and Overview -- Part I. Life Expectancy -- Longevity and Fertility -- Life Expectancy, Money and Growth … -- Life Expectancy, the Labor Supply of the Elderly and Fertility -- Part II. Issues in Social Security -- Fertility, Child …
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Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa : The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925–90
Notkola, Veijo; Siiskonen, Harri - 2000
possibilities to study population development on a regional level by primary sources. In this study fertility, mortality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054293
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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 question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering...
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The World Economy, Population Growth, and the Global Ecosystem : A Unified Theoretical Model of Interdependent Dynamic Systems
Whitmore, Harland Wm. - 2007
The purpose of this study is to better understand the essential interdependencies between the world economy and the global ecosystem, including human populations. World production, product prices, wages, interest rates, exchange rates, employment, and spending are shown to be mutually determined...
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From Malthus’ Stagnation to Sustained Growth : Social, Demographic and Economic Factors
Chiarini, Bruno (ed.); Malanima, Paolo (ed.) - 2012
includes discussion of issues ranging from mortality and fertility to natural resources and the poverty trap. …
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Famine and Finance : Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
Goodspeed, Tyler Beck - 2017
The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and...
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Health and Well-Being in India : A Quantitative Analysis of Inequality in Outcomes and Opportunities
Borooah, Vani Kant - 2018
The theme of this book is health outcomes in India, in particular to outcomes relating to its caste and religious groups and, within these groups, to their women and children. The book’s tenor is analytical and based upon a rigorous examination of recent data from both government and...
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Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa : A Multi-faceted Economic Approach
Heshmati, Almas (ed.) - 2016
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Child poverty and household poverty in Cameroon: A multidimensional approach -- Chapter 3: The impact of child malnutrition and health on cognitive skill in Ethiopia: using standard panel data analysis -- Chapter 4: Assessing MDG achievement through under-5...
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Poverty, hunger and democracy in Africa : potential and limitations of democracy in cementing multiethnic societies
Bigman, David - 2011
The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106207
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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (ed.); Acharya, Shabd S. (ed.);  … - 2007
This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment
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