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Africa: Southern africa's working-age population presents potential for growth. (2016, Sep 22). Asia News Monitor (ProQuest)
Putting Southern Africa's increasing working-age population to work by 2050 could increase incomes per capita, reduce poverty and increase growth in five of its countries, according to a new World Bank study To realize this potential, Southern African countries will need to bolster the employability of the current working-age population with continuous and remedial education, labor insertion programs and social assistance.
Bandara, A. (2015). The Economic Cost of Gender Gaps in Effective Labor: Africa’s Missing Growth Reserve. Feminist Economics, 21(2), 162–186. (EBSCO)
This study analyzes the impact of the gender gap in effective labor – defined as the combined effect of the gender gaps in labor force participation and education – on economic output per worker. The results indicate that the gender gap in effective labor has a negative effect on the economic output per worker in African countries.
China's working-age population sees biggest-ever decline. (2016, Jan 21). Dow Jones Institutional News (ProQuest)
China's working age population saw its biggest decline in 2015, underscoring demographers' warnings of an oncoming labor shortage in the country.
China: China predicts 958 million working-age population in 2030. (2016, Dec 16). Asia News Monitor (ProQuest)
Wang added that the FPA will also pay special attention to protecting the rights and interests of the nation's migrant population, and will provide health services to "left-behind" women and children in rural areas. Since Jan. 1, all married couples have been allowed to have two children.
Covert, K. (1998, Sep 23). Global economy sets rich against poor [the undeclared war: Class conflict in the age of cyber capitalism]. Canadian Press NewsWire (ProQuest)
[James Laxer] is the author of The Undeclared War: Class Conflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism, which argues that the global economy is widening the divide between rich and poor, creating a crisis that will eventually result in massive changes to our concept of the capitalist system
Eberstadt, N. (2019, Jul). With great demographics comes great power: Why population will drive geopolitics. Foreign Affairs, 98, 146-157. (ProQuest)
Demographics may not be destiny, but for students of geopolitics, they come close. Although conventional measures of economic and military power often receive more attention, few factors influence the long-term competition between great powers as much as changes in the size, capabilities, and characteristics of national populations.
Eric Blom Andrew Garber,Staff Writers. (1996, Apr 28). PAY, JOB PATTERNS FRAY MIDDLE CLASS SOCIAL PROBLEMS SPREAD AS WEALTH CONCENTRATES AMONG A FEW AT THE TOP, WHILE POOR AND MIDDLE-CLASS PEOPLE FALL FURTHER BEHIND.(ProQuest)
A Growing Gap ABOUT THE SERIES Powerful economic forces are making rich people richer while leaving the rest of society behind. This is the first part of a seven-day series that examines the implications of this trend. The series day by day TODAY Maine's wealthiest people are enjoying gains in income while middle-class and poor people lose ground.
Historical skew towards the rich in education spending finally at an end. (2018). Education Journal, 355, 16–17. (EBSCO)
The article offers information on a decrease in education based public spending based gap between the students from the rich families and students from the poor families. The topics addressed include details on General Certificate of Secondary Education and its impacts such as children from poorer backgrounds currently had more spent on their education than those from better-off families.
Holt, P. M. (2001, Jul 05). Rich versus poor, old versus young: Heed the cries: [ALL edition]. The Christian Science Monitor (ProQuest)
Before Seattle, concern over labor and the environment was dismissed as modern camouflage for the old arguments of protectionism. Now, it is seen as more complicated. The noisy opponents of globalization may be a bunch of scruffy kids, but like their predecessors of the Vietnam era, they deserve to be taken seriously.
Killewald, A., & Bryan, B. (2018). Falling Behind: The Role of Inter- and Intragenerational Processes in Widening Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps through Early and Middle Adulthood. Social Forces, 97(2), 705–740. (EBSCO)
Whites' wealth advantage compared to blacks and Hispanics is vast and increases with age. While prior research on wealth gaps focuses primarily on wealth levels, we adopt a life-course perspective that treats wealth as a cumulative outcome and examine wealth accumulation across individuals' lives. We test to what extent intergenerational disadvantage and disparities in achieved characteristics explain accumulation disparities. We hypothesize that disparities in wealth determinants, like income and education, family and household characteristics, and homeownership and local context, increase through early and middle adulthood, widening wealth accumulation gaps.
Rick Hampson, & USA TODAY. (n.d.). Where the mega-rich and dirt-poor collide. USA Today. (EBSCO)
LOS ANGELES - When she became president of the Beverly Hills/Greater Los Angeles Realtors Association, Robin Greenberg wanted to do something for people who couldn't afford any home, much less one like hers in the golden hills of Bel Air.
Russia: Demographic transition - what russia can learn from other countries. (2020, Feb 20). Asia News Monitor (ProQuest)
Like several other countries around the world, Russia faces advanced population aging, along with declining fertility and mortality in the decades ahead. The long-term social and economic impacts of these changes will be significant, affecting labor markets, health and pension systems, and economic growth.
Russia: Putin's spokesman comments on raising retirement age in russia. (2018, Jun 18). Asia News Monitor (ProQuest)
The Kremlin explained why the government proposed to raise the retirement age, despite the fact that in 2005 Russian President Vladimir Putin said it would not happen. According to the spokesman of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, the situation has significantly changed in 13 years.
Russia: The single-most underrated trend affecting us - especially russia. (2018, May 14). Asia News Monitor (ProQuest)
Yes, I submit that demography - the power of people - is the single-most underrated trend.
Why? Because demography affects two key economic foundations: first, a country's labor supply, or more precisely, its working-age population - those aged between 15 and 64 years; and second, its dependency ratio - people younger than 15 or older than 64 years who are reliant on the working-age population.
Semuels, A., Kambhampaty, A. P., Moakley, P., & Waxman, O. B. (2020). The Divide. (cover story). TIME Magazine, 195(18), 20–34. (EBSCO)
The article discusses the growing gap between the U.S. rich class and other classes which has been made deeper and wider by the rapid economic collapse catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered include inequality among classes with regards to government assistance, how the ups and downs of the U.S. economy have been most destructive to the poor and middle class and the move of certain people to ask strangers on the Internet for help.
Study shows major health gap between rich and poor (statistics canada's national population health survey). (1995, Sep 22). Canadian Press NewsWire (ProQuest)
Money may not buy happiness but it seems to have a major bearing on health. A national Statistics Canada survey released Friday documents a striking gap between the self-reported health of rich and poor Canadians.
Vanthomme, K., & Gadeyne, S. (2019). Unemployment and cause-specific mortality among the Belgian working-age population: The role of social context and gender. PLoS ONE, 14(5), 1–14. (EBSCO)
Background: Life expectancy increased in industrialized countries, but inequalities in health and mortality by socioeconomic position (SEP) still persist. Several studies have documented educational inequalities, yet the association between health and employment status remains unclear. However, this is an important issue considering the instability of the labour market and the fact that unemployment now also touches ‘non-traditional groups’ (e.g. the high-educated).
Waterman, C. (2019). Bright and beautiful? No. Poor people at the gate? Yes. Education Journal, 363, 22–23. (EBSCO)
The article comments on the poverty in Great Britain emphasizing the report "A New Measure of Poverty for the UK" released by the Social Metric Commission in 2018. Topics include the percentage of the people living in poverty, the opportunities offered by independent schools to poor children and two approaches that might address the gap between the poor and the rich.
