How Population Change Will Transform Our World.

Cover -- HOW POPULATION CHANGE WILL TRANSFORM OUR WORLD, SARAH HARPER -- Copyright -- Dedication -- FOREWORD -- What Is Myth and What Is Science? -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- CHAPTER ONE: The Age Narrative -- The changing age composition of the world -- The demographic drivers of change -- Three lives . . . -- The stories of three women born in 1975 -- SAMIRA, NIGER -- VARYA, MALAYSIA -- LISA, ITALY -- . . . in three regions -- The impact of age-structural change -- Advanced economies -- Emerging economies -- Least developed economies -- Economic and societal consequences -- Inequalities -- The challenge -- CHAPTER TWO: How Did We Get Here? -- The drivers of change -- Sanitation and clean water -- The role of nutrition -- The introduction of pharmaceuticals -- The rise of chronic diseases -- Mortality in Emerging and Least Developed Economies -- Childbearing -- Declining European fertility . . . -- . . . goes global -- Future Challenges -- Very low fertility -- Continued high fertility -- High morbidity and mortality -- Extreme longevity -- Age-structural challenges -- CHAPTER THREE: The Grey Burden -- Production into consumption -- Elderly dependency -- Let's question the assumptions -- Institutional frameworks -- Producing, consuming, and paying taxes -- The second demographic dividend -- The challenge of increasing longevity -- Longer, healthy lives or just longer lives? -- CHAPTER FOUR: Youth: Peril or Dividend? -- MENA countries -- Unemployment -- Arab Spring or Asian Tiger? -- Youth bulge into demographic dividend -- First there was China, now there is India -- What has happened elsewhere? -- South Korea -- The Tiger Cubs: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand -- Thailand -- Vietnam -- Latin America -- The role of demographic change -- CHAPTER FIVE: Too Many Children?.

A continent of child dependents -- Slow fertility transition and fertility stalling -- Children and adolescents: vulnerability -- Adolescents -- Potential for growth held back by dependents -- The role of education and developing human capital -- CHAPTER SIX: Our Future Selves -- Summary -- Addressing the trends through population policy -- The modification of fertility trends -- Pro-natalist policies -- Policies to reduce fertility -- Migration -- Importance of human capital -- A confluence of twenty-first century challenges -- The role of climate change -- The impact of technological change -- Integrating demography into understanding -- Twentieth-century institutions, twenty-first century challenges -- AFTERWORD -- I would like many cows -- I want to become a computer scientist -- I want to be a fashion designer -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Afterword -- INDEX.

In How Population Will Transform Our World, Sarah Harper looks at fertility rates and age structures of populations in different regions of the world against the backdrop of urbanization and climate change, drawing out the profound implications and challenges for societies, economies, and the environment in the decades to come.

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