Prospects in post-demographic transition societies

Population policy and the demographic transition: performance, prospects, and options.

in countries that comprise the majority of the world’s population, the demographic transition has now reached its putative endpoint: a state marked by low fertility and low mortality. it is expected that the rest of the world’s countries are headed in the same direction, prompted by modernizing social change and nudged by looming physical constraints. what were the roles of deliberate policies,...

Regional Economic Development and Strategies in Post-Socialist Societies: Context, Constraints, Dilemmas, and Prospects

Restructuring and reorienting socialist economies is an integral but also deeply problematic aspect of their post-socialist transformation. 1 The full range of problems involved here emerges most clearly when one recognizes at the outset that economic activities themselves are always socially embedded and socially regulated and that they are also overdetermined by various geo-political, socio-c...

Demographic Transition

The differences in the wealth of nations have been in existence historically. The extent of inequalities has been very large and even today they do exist and hence the phenomenon is disturbing. It is an undisputed fact that population of a country does have some effect on the economic growth of a country but the extent to which the population size and composition affects the economy has been a ...

The State of Islamic Finance: Post-crisis and Future Prospects

The main purpose of this paper is to trace epistemological roots of conventional and Islamic finance. Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to highlight, explain, and discuss an ideal conventional and Islamic financial system. The ideal conventional financial system is discussed in light of various writings by Smith and Arrow, based on Arrow-Debreu model. On the other ...

Security-sector Transformation in Post-conflict Societies