Whether Africa's demography brings a dividend or disaster is largely up to its governments.
Demography, which has disguised the extent of the problem so far, will eventually exacerbate it.
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It is possible that demography, rather than income itself, was partly responsible for this change.
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Across the Arab world, demography, technology and communications have sparked a revolution in expectations.
Labour has found an impressive candidate, and the local demography is still powerfully supportive.
First, you should never make comments on Japanese growth or lack thereof without taking demography into account.
With the changes in demography and the start of the peace process, came changes in the political climate.
The budget has been shared between areas using the 120, 000 figure as a fraction of population and demography.
They offer a defined benefit at a given retirement age that has long been rendered obsolete by demography.
Demography may not be destiny, but it does, as Nicholas Eberstadt notes, set the limit of what is possible.
The result, suggests Mr May, is that demography is more complex, if less dramatic, than it used to be.
Demography is driving old and young to seek higher returns on household wealth.
As China progresses and urbanises, its demography increasingly mimics that of the Tigers, just as they now resemble Japan.
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Demography provides less of a boost to demand in the old world, too.
Finance is also a boom industry, fuelled by an explosive combination of economic growth, demography, technology and financial innovation.
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Demography favours the Hutus, who are becoming both more confident and better armed.
But even if demography guarantees nothing, it can make growth harder or easier.
If demography really is destiny for China's economy, those investments could prove disappointing.
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And closer to home, demography points in the direction of ethnic minorities becoming an increasingly important part of electoral calculations.
Whatever the cause, a younger demography could lead to a relatively brighter future for America than is now commonly assumed.
Another is demography: there are fewer young buyers than during the last run-up in house prices, in the late 1980s.
Political handicappers make it sound as if demography is destiny when it comes to which policies and candidates people support.
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Mr Willetts places a big bet on demography, giving short shrift to other factors affecting behaviour, such as technology and religion.
Nor does Mr Rogan replicate Hourani's technique of weaving history out of multiple strands such as demography, trading patterns and literature.
Mr. HANFT: He saw, as a great marketer, as an instinctive promoter, what was happening with the demography of postwar America.
The story of Croydon reflects the story of London, where demography and diversity have been transformed over the last half century.
The first is that, even if fund managers are reading demography correctly, the economics of the business may work against them.
Yet what Japan fails to appreciate is that, as the years pass, its economic ailments are being compounded by skewed demography.
When couples find they cannot afford to care for a bedbound parent, let alone a young child, demography becomes a social disaster.
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