During recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the explanatory power of demographic variables in economic growth regressions. We estimate a new model of the effects of age structure change on economic growth. We use the new model and recent probabilistic demographic projections...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 The 'Youthful Bulge' and a Hope Squandered -- Chapter 2 Fettered by Birth, Battered in Life -- Chapter 3 Vicissitudes of Growth -- Chapter 4 Misplaced Priorities -- Chapter 5 Beyond the...