In 2013, Summers (2015) revived the secular stagnation hypothesis, firstly postulated by Hansen (1939), to describe the current macroeconomic picture faced by developed economies. This dissertation assesses this claim. Taking into consideration the inputs from several authors, w…
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Cities that experience industrial growth concurrently experience population booms, as workers and their families move into the urban centers. The information gathered in this thesis discusses and promotes strategies that could be successfully implemented in California, USA, Keny…
Niger, ranked by the United Nation's Human Development Index (HDI) as among the three least developed countries for the last decade and as the very last this year (UNDP, 2005) faces the severe challenges of how to feed its increasing human population. I tested the hypotheses whe…
This study traces the demographic evolution in present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal, which together comprised the former province of Bengal in British India. It presents time-trend analysis of vital rates and their proximate as well as indirect determinants using registration,…
S'il est vrai que, au fil des décennies, les pays riches ont largement profité de la croissance économique, nous constatons que la logique de développement dominante constitue maintenant une menace pour notre civilisation. Au-delà de l'incurie et de la cupidité humaine, nous fai…
Now in its fourth edition, this book is a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the major areas of natural resource and environmental economics. All chapters have been fully updated and provide a balance of theory, applications and examples to give a more rigorous grounding…
"Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by p…
Education is a key area for knowledge-based, globalising economies. McMahon develops a new approach for measuring the social benefits of education and finding more cost effective policies.
The past half-century has seen enormous changes in the demographic makeup of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In the 1950s, LAC had a small population of about 160 million people, less than today's population of Brazil. Two-thirds of Latin Americans lived in rural areas. F…
Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate income per capita, depleting natural resources, reducing the quality of the environment, and causing more unequal distribution of income. Maintaining that the order of these concerns should be reversed, Peter H. Lin…
Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate income per capita, depleting natural resources, reducing the quality of the environment, and causing more unequal distribution of income. Maintaining that the order of these concerns should be reversed, Peter H. Lin…
In an ever more ethnically diverse UK, debates about migration, difference, place and community have become more pronounced. Urban areas in the UK have seen significant changes in patterns of immigration, while new areas of diversity have emerged in places with little prior hist…
India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty. But this may come at a steep cost to the nation's environment and natural resources. This insightful book analyzes India's growth from an economic perspective and assesses whether …
