Slowing Population Growth and Investment Demand the West German Case

1984 ◽  
pp. 179-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Neal
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
The West ◽  
Investment Demand

Demographic Burst, Population Ageing and Labor-saving Technologies: Interaction in the 21st Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
A. Akimov
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The West ◽  
High Level

The ageing of population in the coming decades is becoming a constraint on economic growth in developed economies and countries of Eastern Asia, but labor-saving technologies including robotics and artificial intelligence may remove this limitation. At the same time, population growth in South Asia and Africa will face lower demand for cheap and low-qualified labor. Pairs of scenarios (success and failure) are proposed for principal regions and countries. For the West, a positive scenario is “the West closes”, which foresees high level of the industrial application of robots and no labor immigration. A negative one – “The West dissolves”, which means high immigration, but no jobs for immigrants, and immigrants’ straddle for domination in social life. The “robo China” foresees high level of robotics in China, high productivity and governmental planning of labor market. The “two Chinas” contemplates an urban high-tech China and a rural China which is not integrated into technological modernization. Central government hardly keeps social situation stable in this case. For India, the “partial participation in robotized economy” is a positive choice making India an element of the new global economy. India develops in the same vein as the West and China. “Out of the new economy” leaves India in the group of developing nations. For Africa, a positive scenario is “rental economy”. Human potential of Africa is not in demand as labor-saving technologies dominate in the global economy, but natural resources attract foreign investors. They pay rent, and it is distributed by governments among inhabitants. “Population growth burden” is a negative variant that foresees high unemployment and lack of financial resources. International assistance is the only way out in this case. Russia is buying labor-saving technologies abroad. The structure of Russian economy now enables to remove limitations resulting from the population ageing, but technological import makes Russia highly vulnerable.

Population growth and demographic balance between Arabs and Jews in Israel and historic Palestine

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Hussein Abu el Naml
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
The West ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
Jewish Immigration ◽  
General Decline ◽  
South Lebanon ◽  
The Gaza Strip

This paper examines the question of the respective percentage of Arab, Jewish, and ‘other’ populations in historic Palestine and Israel using Israeli statistics as correlated to historical events. Analysis of actual percentages demonstrates that birth rates of both Arabs and Jews from 1948 in Palestine/Israel have been in decline, and that for territory in the pre-1967 area, there is no demographic ‘danger’ of Arabs – both Christian and Muslim populations – outnumbering Israelis on the basis of natural population growth. An important factor is also Jewish immigration which has been factored into the overall growth rate. The official growth rate for the Arab population has been skewed due to the 1967 influx (in which populations from the West Bank began to be counted as resident in Jerusalem) as well as the annexation of the Golan Heights and several thousand fugitives from the disbanded South Lebanon Army entering in 2000; if such aberrations are taken into account, it can be shown that the natural growth rate among the Arab population is entirely average and family size is in general decline. On the other hand, if the population of Arabs living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is added to the total, it can be seen that the ratio of Arabs to Jews in all of historic Palestine increased from 8:10 to 9:10 and can be reasonably expected to create a situation where the total number of Arabs will surpass the number of Jews in the next ten years.

scholarly journals The Mun Valley and Central Thailand in prehistory: integrating two cultural sequences

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Franklin Higham ◽  
Fiorella Rispoli
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
The West ◽  
Copper Ore ◽  
Copper Base ◽  
Prestige Goods ◽  
Gold Silver ◽  
Central Thailand

AbstractThis paper compares the later prehistory in two regions of Thailand. The Mun Valley lies on the eastern side of the Phetchabun Range, the Lopburi Region (LR) to the west. They are linked by a major pass. While the Lopburi area is rich in copper ore, the Mun Valley has none. Quality salt is abundantly available in the Mun Valley but less so in the LR. This study explores the inter-relationships between the areas over a period of 2300 years which sharpens our understanding of both, and presents explanations and possibilities in the context of cultural transmission theories. Neolithic farmers with ultimate origins in China, arrived in the first half of the second millennium BC. Widespread exchange in prestige goods was a factor in the adoption of copper-base metallurgy in the late 11th century BC, when the LR became a producer, the Mun Valley an importer. With the Iron Age, (from about 500 BC), sites grew in size. During the course of this period, gold, silver, agate, carnelian and glass ornaments were ritually placed with dead elites. It is in these powerful and wealthy Iron Age communities that we can identify the early transition into states with population growth, agricultural intensification, conflict and increased production and competition over salt and metal for exchange.

Driving into the Flood

Global Edge ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Alejandro Portes ◽  
Ariel C. Armony
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Florida Bay ◽  
The West ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Citizen Groups ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

This chapter considers the problems of traffic congestion and rising sea levels plaguing Miami. Traffic congestion has become the major immediate problem in Miami, and the urgency to alleviate it is heard daily and at all levels of government and citizen groups. The root causes of the problem are sustained population growth and endless high-rise construction in the condominium canyons of Miami Beach, downtown Miami, and other areas. Rising sea levels also represent an existential threat. Aside from the limestone underneath, the area is bound by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida Bay to the south, and the Everglades to the west. There is nowhere to run. The chapter discusses the four solutions proposed so far to this looming threat: denial, technology, infrastructure above the sea, and exodus.

The First Capitalist Nation

Capitalisms ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 251-276
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Inikori
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The West ◽  
Textile Production ◽  
Long Period ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
European Markets ◽  
Central Factors

This chapter traces the long-drawn-out development of capitalism in England, employing the conception of capitalism as a socio-economic system that goes back to Karl Marx and Max Weber. It argues that over the long period, two central factors drove the process: population growth and international/intercontinental trade. From 1086 to 1660, population growth and the wool trade (raw wool and woollen textile production for export to Europe and for the domestic market) were at the centre of the process. From 1660 to 1850, the process shifted decisively to the Atlantic world, partly, because mercantilist policies closed much of the European markets to English manufactures. England’s counties that dominated production for export to the rapidly growing Atlantic markets—Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the West Midlands—launched the Industrial Revolution and industrial capitalism in England.

scholarly journals Analisis Pertumbuhan Dan Persebaran Penduduk Provinsi Sumatera Utara Berdasarkan Hasil Sensus Penduduk Tahun 2010

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mbina Pinem
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
West Coast ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Spatial Approach ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Coast Region

This research porposes to understand growth and spread of population in Province of North Sumatra. The method used here is decriptive analysis of secondary data with the spatial approach. Whereas the object of research are the number of population, the population growth, and spread of population of North Sumatra Province based on 2010 census of Indonesian pupulation. The outcome of research represents that the population growth of Province of North Sumatra from 2000 to 2010 average of 1,22 percent per year. Then, the highest population growth found in Regency of Middle Tapanuli (2,46 percent), followed by Regency of Karo (2,17 percent), and South Tapanuli Regency (2,12 percent). Meanwhile the lowest population growth found in Siantar Town (-029 percent) and followed by Toba Samosir Regency (0,38 percent) and Simalungun Regency (-0,46 percent). As the spread of pupulation in the North Sumatra Province is not prevalent, as the settlements spreads nearly 62,87 percent on the east coast region, whereas only 3,05 percent on the west coast, and the rest 4,85 percent on the Nias Islands.

Conservation status of Lechenaultia aphylla (Goodeniaceae), a disturbance opportunist from the Great Victoria Desert, Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Leigh W. Sage
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
South Australia ◽  
The West ◽  
South West ◽  
Centre Of Diversity ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Recent Collection ◽  
Western Australian

LIKE all genera in the Goodeniaceae, the south-west of Western Australia is the centre of diversity for Lechenaultia R.Br. with 20 of 26 species in the genus endemic to the region (Keighery and Sage 1999; Morrison 1992). Many species of Lechenaultia (and Goodeniaceae) have habitat preferences for ephemerally wet sites (watercourses and lake edges), especially in the Eremaean Botanical Province (unpubl. data). Species such as L. striata (nomenclature follows Western Australian Herbarium 1998 and Orchard and Wilson 2001) and L. galactites are disturbance opportunists, showing prolific population growth after fire events (S. van Leeuwen, pers. comm.; unpubl. data). Of the remaining species scattered across central and eastern Australia, L. aphylla is the least known with only two non-flowering collections from the extreme eastern Great Victoria Desert bioregion of South Australia (including the holotype). A recent collection of the species made over 1 100 km to the west highlights the lack knowledge of the species and bioregion in general.

scholarly journals Determinants of the population growth of the West Nile virus mosquito vector Culex pipiens in a repeatedly affected area in Italy

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Mulatti ◽  
Heather M Ferguson ◽  
Lebana Bonfanti ◽  
Fabrizio Montarsi ◽  
Gioia Capelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Nile Virus ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Culex Pipiens ◽  
Mosquito Vector ◽  
The West ◽  
West Nile ◽  
Affected Area
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