Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- POPULATION ESTIMATES -- POPULATION COMPOSITION AND VITAL RATES -- OPPORTUNITIES FOR FURTHER WORK -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Appendix -- SELECTED PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE ON POPULATION.

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The challenge of sustaining economic growth over the long term is one that only a few countries have been able to surmount. Slowing momentum in countries like Malaysia and Thailand has led analysts and policy makers to consider what it would take to lift them out of middle-income status, where...