Sentences with phrase «of population growth on»

While the effect of population growth on the demand for grain is rather clear, that of rising affluence is much less so.

It is often argued that we don't have to worry about the effect of population growth on emissions growth because we can cut our emissions by changing technologies and pursuing energy efficiency.

In addition, the investigated 32 summary conclusions on regional impacts do not mention other factors that play an important role, such as the influence of population growth on water shortages.

The State of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate effects of climate change, although the longer - term influence of population growth on climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.

This paper examines the nature of the population challenge globally, the effect of population growth on food demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the potential benefits — in...

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Katsenelson also argues that since local officials are tasked with meeting specified growth targets on a per capita basis, there's an incentive to downplay the size of the local population.

Over the coming decade, the 600 largest and best - connected cities on the planet will contain a fifth of the world's population, capture almost two - thirds of its economic growth, and encompass more than half of global GDP, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

The usual proxies for global growth — oil and other commodities, emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the emerging world, which accounts for 85 % of the world's population.

On Wednesday, the OECD said immigration had accounted for one - half of U.K. GDP growth since 2005, resulting in a stronger labor force growth and helping ameliorate the challenge of an ageing population.

With wealth, it measures the current and future populations of affluent residents, focusing mainly on the growth rate.

Innovation thrives on diversity; by excluding more than half of our population, we are greatly limiting economic growth.

The Halifax Index, produced annually for Nova Scotia's capital, benchmarks the city against five peer cities on a number of important measurements: population growth, education levels, the confidence of the business sector, and more.

Singapore, whose population of 5.56 million has grown nearly 40 % since 2000, tightly controls the ownership and sale of vehicles through a bidding process and an annual growth rate that caps the total number of vehicles on the city - state's roads.

The structural deficit will subsequently grow larger as a result of slowing potential economic growth and pressures on program expenses resulting from an ageing population.

This needs to be addressed because of the pending adverse impacts of an ageing population on economic growth and on government revenues and spending.

An aging global population in the developed world, coupled with the emergence of a more robust healthcare services infrastructure in the developing world, will keep demand growth in the healthcare sector on a steady upward trend for decades.

Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

Entire populations within currency zones can literally nuke themselves to the verge of oblivion, and yet a portfolio that is maximally diversified in the investments of that territory, will never experience a nominal decline, since the return of such a portfolio is a function of aggregate revenues, which by definition is on a fixed growth path.

«Attention must be placed on the growth and sustainability of a younger, multiracial population as they become the foundation of the American economy.

Of the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquOf the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquof commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquof potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.»

Such analysis is especially important, given the impact of an ageing population on economic growth, and government revenues and spending, especially for public pensions and health care.

For most types of growth, the population density of a business owner's region (urban, rural, or suburban) didn't have any impact on their growth plans.

Lack of support for poor and single - parent families, lack of access to programs like free or affordable childcare, a growing preoccupation with population control, and the continuing dependence on international aid organizations that supported orphanages in South Korea, all contributed to the growth of international adoptions well beyond the crisis of the Korean War period.

Vancouver's steady population growth, in particular its unusually high percentage of foreign - born residents, is the basis of this confidence, said Mario Lefebvre, the director of the board's Centre for Municipal Studies, in an analysis released on Thursday.

The government has been warned many times that, after 2015, the combination of an aging population and the resulting impact on economic growth and government revenues and expenses will result in ongoing deficits and increasing debts — a fact the Conservatives have failed to acknowledge to date.

Economic growth depends largely on the size of the population in the labor force, making the steady wave of baby boomer retirees cause for concern.

Per the BBVA Research Department, the potential long run GDP growth trend should revert to around 2 % -2.2 % based on expectations for labor (major factor being U.S. demographics, i.e. aging of the population), capital growth, and productivity.

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

We can debate the potential causes of this imbalance — aging demographics, falling population growth, stagnation in innovation, zero - sum substitution of technology for labor, globalization, rising wealth inequality, excessive debt accumulation, and so on.

Most of the cities on the list had a combination strong population growth, job market stability, and expected home - price appreciation in 2016.

And with the inevitable population growth ahead of us, I want us to always be mindful and forward - thinking in terms of impact on the natural environment.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

Tsipras is to address a growth conference on Lesvos later on Thursday amid tight security as local residents have planned protests against the large migrant population on the island and the government's plans to revoke the island's discounted rate of value added tax.

On a different note, if a group of men go through all that religious training and all that exposure to superior morality and spiritual growth, and indeed become higher - ups in the spiritual plane, why is their rate the same as the rest of the population, as the Vatican claims?

Most developed countries have set up systems of welfare that depend on population growth to sustain them.

Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human spirit.

But most educated people believe that the gains to income from capitalism's triumph have been modest, that the poor have been left behind, that the Third World has been made miserable in aid of the enrichment of the First, that population growth must be controlled, that diminishing returns on the whole has been the main force in world economic history since 1800.

The contrast between the two viewpoints is particularly vivid on the matter of population growth.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.

Unfortunately, when there is talk of reducing population growth by public policies, many people immediately envision serious infringements on the freedom of families to make decisions about the number of children they shall have.

At the international level, offers of economic aid will have to be made conditional on the full cooperation of the recipient country in controlling population growth.

The comment on this plank in the platform by Devall and Sessions simply reports on efforts to curb population growth of which most of us are fully supportive.

Fact: The two greatest drains on the global environment today are rampant population growth in some of the underdeveloped countries and rising rates of consumption in the industrial nations.

The extent of this rapid phase of church growth — how long it will last, what effect it will have on the general population of the city, and if these churches can endure past a single generation — «remains to be seen,» Carnes says.

By 2060, such growth will result in the global population of Christians and Muslims approaching parity — totaling 3.1 billion and 3 billion, respectively — with each tradition accounting for nearly 1 in 3 people on earth.

On this basis, technological reason can argue against continuing the rapid growth of population, pollution, industrial production, and use of natural resources.

Later still came the revolution in hygiene and medicine that was responsible for the greatest increase in rate of population growth in the history of the world, with its attendant strain on the resources of the earth.

Present - day society is locked into four positive feedback loops which need to be broken: economic growth which feeds on itself, population growth which feeds on itself, technological change which feeds on itself, and a pattern of income inequality which seems to be self - sustaining and which tends to spur growth in the other three areas.