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The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new kinship configurations worldwide. But how quickly are changes taking place?
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 ...
The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is a multi-region, forward-looking, DSGE model developed at the International Monetary Fund for policy analysis and international economic ...
Demographic Research, Vol. 33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 1297-1332 (38 pages) BACKGROUND Several theories compete to explain the main drivers of urbanisation, past and present, in relation to both ...
The upshot of this rush into the demographic transition is a steady drop in global fertility and population growth. The world’s fertility rate, which stood at 3.5 births per woman in the mid ...
Aliaksandr Amialchuk ¹, Elitsa Dimitrova ², Detecting the evolution of deliberate fertility control before the demographic transition in Germany, Demographic Research, Vol. 27 (JULY - DECEMBER 2012), ...
In response to rising healthcare costs, demographic trends and new technologies, the transition to value-based care is occurring throughout the healthcare system. The value-based framework reimburses ...
There can be too much of a good thing, after all. The demographic transition that Kerala has heralded in the country has now delivered a sucker punch to the State, with its maternal mortality ...