Ansley Coale and Edgar Hoover were right about Asia. Rising fertility and declining infant mortality have had a … youth dependency burdens; Where Asia has kicked the foreign capital dependence habit is where youth dependency burdens have … will go to the rest of Asia since the rest will become net capital exporters, at least if demography is allowed to have its …

Despite an enormous literature that has analyzed the comparative experiences of Latin America and Asia in post-World … highest tariff barriers on earth before 1914; Asia had the lowest. Protected Latin America's belle ‚poque also boasted some of … the most explosive growth performance on earth, while Asia registered some of the worst. What brought the two regions to …

Asia during this century than in any other region or historical period. By introducing demographic variables into an … empirical model of economic growth, this essay shows that this transition has contributed substantially to East Asia's so …-called economic miracle. The 'miracle' occurred in part because East Asia's demographic transition resulted in its working …