Assessing the consequences of population on the pace and process of economic growth is one of the oldest themes in the literature on economics. These assessments have varied enormously over time, spanning the highly pessimistic to the outright optimistic. A systematic review of the major studies...

"An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."-William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal "An important landmark...

Features -- Booms, Busts, and Echoes -- Asia: Ready or Not -- Global Migration -- Can Europe Afford to Grow Old? -- Reform in Europe: What Went Right? -- Pension Challenges in and Aging World -- Investing in the Youth Bulge -- Aging in Financial Markets -- Gauging the Cost of Aging --...