Colorado voters adopted a TABOR in 1992, which limits growth in state taxes and spending to the rate of growth of population plus inflation.
The growth of human population, which Malthus believed had peaked during his lifetime, has risen relentlessly and rapidly over the past three centuries.
In 14 of the 20 countries studied, these increases in wealth outpaced the growth of their population, leaving per-person wealth higher in 2008 than in 1990.
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Mr Gardner reminds us that the growth of the population has been far outstripping the hopelessly inadequate level of new house building, while the number of people in employment has been rising.
Problems arise from conflicts between different uses of coastal land and waters, overexploitation of coastal resources, discharge of wastes and effluents into coastal waters, increasing stress by sea level change and growth of coastal population.
The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
In fact, more than half of the growth in the total population of the United States between 2000 and 2010 was due to the increase in the Hispanic population.
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If births don't add to the population, and immigration isn't the whole story, accounting for around half of net population growth, where does the rest of America's growth come from?
It means a slowing of the pace of growth to the west of London, giving way to more business and population growth in... the east of London.
This is the site of Wales' greatest growth in population - a rise of 23.2%.
Much of the analysis of movements in house prices concentrates only on demand factors, such as interest rates and the rate of growth in population and incomes.
"For a country that's aging, we need young workers, and the growth of the minority population will contribute to the size of the young adult workforce, " he said.
The Pew report says those trends should help propel the growth of the Asian population in the U.S. to 41 million in 2050, more than double its current size.
Allowing for growth in population of around 1% a year, America's long-term growth in incomes per head is estimated today at between, say, 1.5% (by old-economy stick-in-the-muds) and 3% or more (by new-economy enthusiasts).
Deputy Geoff Southern wants the proposal, which is set out in a States blueprint for the future, to be changed so growth of the working population is set at a quarter of what has been planned.
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This one comes from a paper, delivered at a NBER conference last month, on the supply dynamics of the housing boom and bust. (A hat tip goes to Benjamin Keys.) The authors crunched census data to compile the compounded annual growth rates of the population, smoothed out over five years.
She's the director of America 2050, a national initiative to meet the needs of the country over the next 40 years based on a projected population growth of 100 million.
That was just ahead of the rate of population growth (0.7%), but well behind the rate of economic growth (2.2%).
For instance, GDP growth is a result of (in addition to population growth) the income reinvestment rate in the economy multiplied by the rate of return on that reinvestment (or the aggregate ROIC in the economy).
"A negative is that the earnings growth is kind of limited to the population growth, " he said.
Even relatively water-rich countries of the region, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan and Papua New Guinea, now face water supply and quality constraints in their major cities because of population growth, growing water consumption, environmental degredation, damaging agricultural activities, poor management of water catchment areas, industrialization, and groundwater overuse.
We want and need to have economic growth as that is the only way we know of to reduce population growth (quite apart from the fact that we also need it to abolish human poverty, something of a desirable goal).
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Much of this population growth is expected to come from high fertility countries, 39 of which are in Africa.
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They pointed out that rich nations like the UK and US had already experienced their own periods of rapid population growth during industrialisation - and blamed Western consumers for appropriating too many of the planet's resources.
This means that on average, every year for the next 50 years, the world population will grow by about the number of people that live now in Italy, and total population growth over the next 50 years will be more than twice the size of the current population in China.
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The vast majority of population growth has occurred in developing nations like China and India.
Each year, the effects of population growth on natural resources and the environment are being recognized.
Population growth of 2.3% outruns the country's ability to build its economy and invest in infrastructure.
It logged the f ifth-highest rate of population growth last year, according to the Census Bureau.
With annual population growth of 2.3%, this implied a virtual standstill in living standards.
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