The Industrial Revolution that brought unprecedented economic growth to Western Europe and North America also coincided with a new epoch in population dynamics (Galor, 2005). Countries moved from a ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 5 (Mar., 1964), pp. 476-490 (15 pages) Data from contemporary Egypt refute almost all the generalizations about urban-rural demographic differences that ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over ...

Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has now ...

Demographic opportunities refer to favorable conditions that emerge during a country's demographic transition and are conducive to economic and social development. Demographic dividend, on the other ...

The variations in the initiation, course, speed and terminations of demographic transitions may involve cultural and temporal specificities as well as historic incidents. In this article there is an ...

Humankind is being buffeted by the forces of demographic change. The most prominent changes are rapid population growth in some developing economies and shifting shares of adolescents and young adults ...

Interest rates have been trending down for more than two decades. One possible explanation is the dramatic worldwide demographic transition, with people living longer and population growth rates ...