Sentences with phrase «of slowing population growth»

Drawing on a host of data sets, the authors conclude that a combination of slowing population growth, moderated demand for land - intensive food (meat, for instance) and more efficient farming methods have resulted in a substantial «decoupling» of acreage and human appetites.

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

When parents have the expectation that their children will survive, they choose to have fewer children, with a net effect of slower population growth.

Not exact matches

Western Australia has maintained the country's fastest annual population growth rate of 2.9 per cent, however the rate of growth has slowed compared with last year's figures.

«A lot of the ingredients that drive retail revenue... aren't there,» he said pointing to slow U.S. economic growth, low inflation and population growth.

So let me just point out that the growth of the population of companies slowed dramatically in a number of countries in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

There are still elements of the secular stagnation story which are fundamentally true; that is, that population growth in the world is slowing.

Employment growth is slowing and percentage of the population aged 15 and over working is less today than before the recession.

This is because population growth is slowing as the positive impact of the post-war baby boom is mostly behind us now.

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

Translation: The post-crisis world is a slower growth world because of structural changes and because an older population means slower growth.

As it happens, Ehrlich's predictions were entirely incorrect: Not only has increased food production reduced famine to a weapon of political conflict, but the world's population growth has slowed to a crawl.

The World Bank began to support programs designed to slow population growth independently of economic growth.

China has enforced the pro-abortion one - child limit since the early 1980s to coercively slow the growth of its population.

The MIT projection is that if we continue on our way as at present, shortages of resources for industry will slow population growth within twenty years and stop it, early in the twenty - first century, at approximately six billion.

Citigroup's head of research Craig Woolford says Homebase is likely to experience weaker demand as population growth and GDP growth slow in the UK.

Pew Research2 shows that the while Latinos account for 57 million people in the US and for half of the overall population growth in the country, the growth has gradually been slowing and is expected to level off by 2021.

The reductions mapped out by the report would not reduce the size of the global meat industry, the researchers said, because rising population is pushing up demand, but it would significantly slow its growth.

However, the two sides can not agree on elimination of a second seat, as required by New York's slow population growth over the past 10 years relative to the other states.

The state has seen slow population growth in recent years, while New York actually lost a small amount of population last year.

The DN blames Albany for New York's slow population growth and the loss of two Congressional seats.

[The DN blames Albany for New York's slow population growth and the loss of two Congressional seats.]

We must accelerate our economies and at the same time ensure that we slow the growth of the African population.

In their favoured scenario, they concluded that «ownership of appliances, construction of residential and commercial floor area, roads, railways, fertiliser use, and urbanisation will peak around 2030 with slowing population growth» — as will Chinese CO2 emissions.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

That's why Ehrlich and Pringle call for educating women, which has slowed or stopped population growth in the developed countries of Europe.

Although billions of people are still in the pipeline, global population growth is slowing so rapidly that a decline in the population later this century seems unavoidable.

Human activity is responsible for a sixth extinction of thousands of species, so Paul Ehrlich and a colleague call for educating women to slow population growth

The finding is good news for the gloomy field of human population projection, but growth will have to slow substantially in developing countries if global numbers are to peak at an estimated 9 billion people.

Slower population growth that leads to eight billion people in 2050 rather than to the currently projected 9.1 billion would save one billion to two billion tons of carbon annually by 2050, according to estimates by climate scientist Brian O'Neill of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and his colleagues.

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

The population of the Las Vegas Valley has nearly tripled in two decades, although this growth has slowed recently.

Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve populations with more illness and health problems.

By 2050, the world will host nine billion people — and that's if population growth slows in much of the developing world.

A more alkaline growth medium, for example, made the autoinducer less stable, slowing activation of the cell - suicide gene and increasing the population.

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The team used a combination of experiments to zero in on the molecular activity of melittin at the «minimal inhibitory concentration» (MIC), the lowest concentration that's been shown to slow the growth of target cell populations.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

There are two general types of resistance genes found in wheat: Race - specific genes confer a high - level of resistance to specific strains of leaf rust but can be easily overcome by genetic mutation in pathogen populations, while slow rusting (APR) resistance provides partial resistance to a broad spectrum of races, but is typically effective only at the adult stage of plant growth.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior.

So, if the market sentiment decides it doesn't like a few factors, such as a decision to follow a divergent monetary policy, continued slow global economic growth, a world - wide aging population, and the swearing in of Donald Trump as the next American President, we could be see a rise in bond rates, which will absolutely start to increase fixed - rate mortgage rates.

So, we expect based on our finding that continued development will reduce fertility rates in all but the most advanced countries, and that development will thus slow the rates of global population growth.

I recently learned of the phrase «slow changing stocks» — things like infrastructure and population growth which start out small, maybe a new power plant here or an oversized family there — but determine how we use resources far into the future.

Most important, it means reducing demand by slowing population growth and, for those of us already living high on the food chain, eating less meat, milk, eggs, and fish.

This would at least slow the rate of population growth until the baby - boomers die off (sorry mom) and a minor reduction would begin (this may take a while since the boomers intend to subsist in cybernetic retirement hives until the 22nd century).

Given rates of population growth are already slowing, it should be viable to have a reasonable level of technology.