The paper has scrutinized the nexus among poverty, economic growth, employment and dependency ratio in developing countries. The primary intension behind this study is to find out the association between variables such as poverty, economic growth, agricultural and industrial employment and dependency ratio due to the gap in the existing literature. This study fully relies on cross country data ...

abstract consensus in the international community has grown over the past two years that hiv/aids poses a threat to development, security, and economic growth. a few studies over the last ten years have looked at the impact on workers and their employers. with momentum building to prevent new infections and treat those already afflicted, more information is needed to assess economic impacts and...

The age group composition of populations varies substantially across continents and within countries, and is linked to levels of development, health status and poverty. The subnational variability in the shape of the population pyramid as well as the respective dependency ratio are reflective of the different levels of development of a country and are drivers for a country's economic prospects ...

As continuously studied by numerous papers, demographic factors are expected to be crucial components that affect the saving rates of countries. This paper investigates the correlation between the domestic saving rates and the old age dependency ratio, by examining the data set of 15 high income countries from 1975 to 2010, based on hypothesis that old age dependency ratio is negatively correla...

    In 2010, the World Bank categorized countries in per capita gross domestic product in terms of purchasing power parity (at constant 1990 prices) in three categories: low, middle (lower and upper) and high income. If a country caught at least 28 years in lower middle income level and at least 14 years caught in upper middle-income level, then they are trapped in lower middle and upper middle...

Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk menganalisis pengaruh dependency ratio dan sex terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi di Kota Langsa, baik secara parsial maupun simultan. Dalam menggunakan data sekunder yang diperoleh dari Badan Pusat Statistik Langsa. Metode analisis dalam pengujian asumsi klasik, regrsi linier berganda, uji t, F koefisien determinasi. Hasil menyebutkan bahwa variabel memilki positif ...

In this paper we compare several types of economic dependency ratios for a selection of European countries. These dependency ratios take not only into account the demographic structure of the population, but also the differences in age-specific economic behaviour such as labour market activity, income and consumption. In simulations where we combine patterns of age-specific economic behaviour w...