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But African countries do have some things in common: widespread improvements in farm policy, improved demographic conditions, and the availability of new technologies create new opportunities for the decade ahead.
But around 2015, China will face a third dramatic change – a demographic shift reflecting the effects of its long-standing one-child policy.
At the same time, Japan’s demographic trends will boost demand for fiscal expenditure, as pension and health-care costs rise.
Of course, the technological and demographic factors that underpin potential growth ebb and flow over longer (multi-decade) timeframes; and, regardless of whether the US and other advanced countries have entered a long-run period of secular decline, there really is no way to influence these forces.
But the real reason to fear the Islamic State is not its lust for power; it is the systematic, cold-blooded way in which its members are erasing the region’s social, cultural, and demographic past.
Another factor that worked in the regime’s favor was the so-called demographic dividend (an abundant labor force and a relatively small percentage of children and elderly dependents).
At the same time, given rapid population aging, China’s demographic dividend has all but dissipated.
In all other areas, the West retains a clear advantage: Russia’s demographic decline, antiquated military forces, one-dimensional economy, low productivity, and chronic internal unrest dwarf the challenges faced by the US and Europe.
While the US is blessed by a growing population (set to rise from 300 million to 400 million by mid-century), the EU is cursed with demographic decline (to 450 million by mid-century, from 500 million now).
But this still does not mean that the gender gap tells us much as a first-order factor, especially if we consider other gaps among demographic groups.
But they may have to do no more than bide their time, as their demographic advantage grows.
Ebola’s main victims – poor, black, African – are part of a demographic that, to put it mildly, is of little interest to mainstream America.
Japan is much richer than Russia today, but it, too, remains mired in economic malaise and may be trapped in a perpetual downward demographic spiral.
Stockholm came one step closer to admitting Europe’s real population problem, when it spoke of “the demographic challenge of an ageing population of which people of working age constitute an ever-smaller part.”
What is now required is that EU leaders stop pretending that Europe’s demographic ageing can be solved by more internal labor mobility.
The hawks have trapped Israel in a demographic quandary, binding together two nations that are utterly different from each other.
A recent CBO analysis attributes about one-half of the decline in the LFPR from the end of 2007 to the end of 2013 to these cyclical factors, with the remainder explained by secular demographic trends.
The second structural challenge is demographic.
One of the most profound demographic shifts in recent years has been the massive expansion of a middle class in the global south.
Many of the disadvantaged belong to specific demographic groups that tend to fare worse than others in all countries, not least because they face similar economic, legal, political, and cultural barriers.
Policymakers have also failed to boost the efficiency of the public and financial sectors, or to address mounting demographic pressures caused by low birth rates and rapid population aging.
The scars of the global financial crisis and Great Recession, combined with longer-term structural economic, technological, cultural, and demographic trends, have left large swaths of the population in many countries feeling politically neglected, culturally disparaged, and/or economically wounded.
By contrast, India has a far more abundant supply of labor, as well as a more favorable demographic profile, so that, as India’s investment rate increases, labor will not be a constraint.
Demographic change – with the number of 15-to-30-year-olds, in particular, falling by 25% over the next decade – could also help.
Industrialization is the key to helping Africa’s fast-growing population realize a demographic dividend.
India’s favorable demographic profile can add significantly to its economic-growth potential for the next three decades, provided that its young people are educated and trained properly.
Job-eroding technological advances, worsening income inequality, demographic shifts, dwindling natural resources, and environmental depletion are adding even more straws to the camel’s back.
OECD countries in particular will be hit by a double demographic shock.
Demographic researchers divide countries into four categories, according to the share of the over-65 population: young (less than 7% aged 65 or over), aging (7-13%), aged (14-20%), and super-aged (more than 21%).
The other side is persistent poverty, lack of development, massive environmental degradation, a widespread rural-urban divide, demographic problems, and troubled banking systems.
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