Everyone talks about GDP. Economists of all sorts care about GDP. From a layman to the lover of economics, from a … Globetrotter to a Geopolitical Strategist, GDP is a "go-to metric” to compare and examine the size and strength of nation …-states. Despite its popularity, GDP is a misnomer and it does not effectively measure gross domestic product, rather it captures gross …

-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal …

Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets …, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key … and quality of the work force, which is determined, with a lag, by the growth rate and structure of the population. The …

, respectively. Moreover, these countries remarkably improved their per capita income as PRC increased its per capita GDP by 13-fold …