This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With … public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it … raises the saving rate and thereby increases the rate of physical capital accumulation. Second, it reduces accidental …

This article presents multi-output, multi-input total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates in agriculture for 88 … countries and the determinants of TFP growth in developing countries. The central finding is that policy and institutional … growth. The most significant geographic correlate of TFP growth is distance to the nearest OECD country. …

schemes in operation. Approximately 16 per cent of the economically active population are members of medical schemes. White … beneficiaries represent 19 per cent of the total population; black beneficiaries increased by 422.1 per cent, while Whites increased … real terms. Ninety five per cent of the income of medical schemes was derived from membership fees. The average real growth …

Scalar population models, commonly referred to as count-based models, are based on time-seriesdata of population sizes … examinedscalar and matrix-based population models of 18 real populations for potential patterns of bias in populationviability …

that demographic profiles vary across countries, population age structure may be linked to differences in levels of …

A demographic development of advanced countries is characterized by worsening of the age structure and population aging … states, there were also changes in a population lifestyle, marriages are closed later and thereby an mothers´ age in a their …

developments in the private sector; thus they are not promoters or engines of growth for the private sector. …