Objectives, background, context -- Population trends in China and India: -- Demographic dividend or demographic drag? -- China-India: a macroeconomic assessment -- Science and technology -- Chinese & Indian defense and defense procurement spending to 2025 -- Conclusions and implications --...

Introduction: the conceptual and empirical basis for the work -- The state of knowledge: population, education, and socioeconomic change -- Growth in minority populations -- Race/ethnicity and education -- Education, income, and socioeconomic change -- Content of, definitions affecting, and...

"For much of its history, human population growth increased at a glacial pace. The demographic rate only soared about 200 years ago, climaxing in the period 1950-2000. In that 50-year span, the population grew more than it had in the previous 5000 years. Though these raw numbers are impressive,...