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through migration, growth in Russian regions will moderate as the Russian population shrinks and ages in the coming decades …
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The literature is reviewed on the relationships between population, poverty, and climate change. While developed …, but are projected to rise rapidly in the developing world due to their economic growth and population growth -- the latter … most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate …
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This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility … survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altruistic transfers, and thereby increase the savings rate and the …
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Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million … population as per the World Health Organization standards. Several studies have shown that stunted growth during childhood …
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The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper focuses on the relative and aggregate effects of these three forces on wages across...
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?s end, population increases from pre-war levels remain 38 to 67 percent lower in areas that were affected by the rebellion …
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Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing … opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population … sustained increases in the working-age shares of their population, and these shifts have the potential to boost growth and …
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The countries of the Southern African Customs Union have relatively diverse demographic and economic starting points. These economies have the potential to realize demographic dividends and experience an acceleration in their income per capita growth and poverty reduction progress through...
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Using household data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, this paper assesses how aging affects saving. To overcome a systematic bias against the life-cycle hypothesis of survey data, the paper estimates how the age profile of saving changes when the micro data are corrected to...
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its population. The opportunity of African countries to convert these changes into demographic dividends for growth and …
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