Economic Development and Population Control: A Fifty-year Projection for JamaicaEconometrics model to estimate the impact of population growth on economic development in Jamaica up to the year 2020 - forecasts the effect on the gross national product, consumption, savings and investments, the size and age group structure of the labour force force, capital worker ratios, etc., covers ecological aspects and stresses the need for a population policy. Bibliography pp. 125 to 134, references and statistical tables. |
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DEMOGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS | 12 |
ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS | 39 |
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Age Groups age-specific birth rates arithmetic mean Autonomous Growth average propensity births prevented Calculation capital and labor capital stock capital-labor ratio Cobb-Douglas coefficient Constant Returns demographic investment demographic outputs demographic transition demographic-econometric Department of Statistics dependency ratio developing countries Economic Development economic growth effect employed labor equivalent adult consumer estimate expenditures family planning fertility rates fertility reduction five-year interval fixed capital formation fixed productive capital government consumption gross domestic investment gross national product growth model high fertility High Medium Low income increase Jamaica Department Jamaican Pounds Kingston labor force low fertility assumptions Low Very Low medium fertility mortality neoclassical growth model number of births participation rates percent Popu Population Control postulated Private consumption Product Per Equivalent production function productive capital formation productivity of capital propensity to save proportion returns to scale Scale Year High Stephen Enke sumers survival rates tion unemployment rate Various Fertility Assumptions welfare investment zero-growth rate