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Such rapid population growth, on top of even faster increases over the last 50 years, is a major barrier to economic development.
East Asia has gained a huge demographic dividend from rapid fertility declines: in much of Africa and the Middle East, the dividend is still missing.
To be sure, rapid population decline would create difficulties.
On the other hand, increased automation could be a huge barrier to economic development for countries still facing rapid population growth.
It merely requires high levels of female education, the uninhibited supply of contraceptives, and freedom for women to make their own reproductive choices, unconstrained by the moral pressure of conservative religious authorities or of politicians operating under the delusion that rapid population growth will drive national economic success.
The alternative is a vicious circle of violence and poverty, exacerbated by rapid population growth.
It could conceivably make an equally rapid transition to a post-industrial, sustainable, harmonious society – if it takes certain crucial steps.
Park’s father, former President Park Chung-hee, helped the chaebol to flourish during his 17-year autocratic rule, allowing them to drive the country’s rapid economic development – the so-called “Miracle on the Han River.”
Without rapid demand growth somewhere in the developed world outside the US – and Germany and Japan are the best places to look – it is hard to see how the global economy can balance itself at a high level over the next few years.
Tribalism has strong appeal in periods of rapid, tumultuous change, as what the political philosopher Karl Popper called the “the strain of civilization” exerts its pressures on society.
Doing so will be a difficult balancing act, because it will require addressing the very real fears and unease produced by the rapid changes rippling across the world.
A collapse in fertility rates, coupled with longer life expectancy, is driving a rapid and pronounced aging of populations.
These strategies will help to slow rapid urbanization, which entails dense construction, sealed roads, and private cars – all of which contribute to the “urban heat island” effect.
Humanitarian efforts continue to be strengthened, including through a new rapid funding mechanism, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund.
We are seeing such rapid changes throughout Africa.
Impoverished communities are cheering the prospect of a rapid ramp-up in girls’ education, if meager resources permit.
The interplay of voluntary fertility reduction and declining poverty are profound and rapid.
Recovery was rapid and strong, with real GDP growth averaging nearly 9% in 2010-2011.
In 2011, for example, the BRSA adopted a loan-to-value regulation on mortgages in order to limit rapid credit expansion stemming from growth in consumer loans.
But when you dug into their argument, it turned out that what they really meant was the second: whenever private-market instability threatened to cause a depression, the government could avert it or produce a rapid recovery simply by purchasing enough bonds for cash to flood the economy with liquidity.
But a much-improved fiscal framework also helped – in countries like Chile and Brazil, fiscal policy could afford to become strongly counter-cyclical – and so did the rapid recovery in commodity prices in 2010.
Employment in Chinese services is about 30% higher per unit of output than in the manufacturing and construction sectors, which means that an increasingly services-led China can accomplish its critical labor-absorption objectives – namely, rapid job creation and poverty reduction – with 7-8% annual growth.
Farmer suicides in India have raged unabated over the past decade, a period of much-vaunted rapid growth.
At the other end of the spectrum, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have fared much worse developmentally, in no small measure due to their inability to escape the crushing burden of rapid population growth and youth dependency.
Within Eastern Europe, capital has sought out the countries with the most rapid growth, following the overwhelming pattern in emerging markets.
But the rapid expansion of credit brought about by foreign financial intermediaries using various channels (including direct lending, lending via banking subsidiaries, and lending via leasing subsidiaries) has fueled asset booms and heightened exposure to foreign-exchange risk.
Chile’s Presidential MinuetBUENOS AIRES – Chile has been Latin America’s success story since the 1980’s, boasting rapid economic growth, successful integration into the world economy, solid democratic institutions, an effective state bureaucracy, and low levels of corruption.
Forward-thinking action will also be critical in countries anticipating rapid economic and/or population growth, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan.
That way, China can avoid the kinds of asset bubbles that swelled in the last several years, when rapid credit growth failed to support the real economy.
The drama – more accurately, a tragedy – playing out in the North is the rapid disappearance of the polar ice cap, the Arctic Ocean’s defining feature.
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