Sentences with phrase «shrinking population»

Now the Guardian has picked up on the story, wondering why a country with a shrinking population is has so much new housing going up.

This crisis is aggravated by these retirees who are living longer and thus receiving more benefits, and so the shrinking population of young workers is facing a growing population of retired citizens to support.

Most of their wood goes into building houses and, with a shrinking population and a dislike of immigration, there are not a lot of houses being built.

On the other, I can imagine that with a shrinking population, we'll also have a «greyed» population, in which labor is a good deal scarcer and more valuable.

I question whether a country with an aging and shrinking population such as Japan or Poland must therefore be in some kind of trouble.

Per capita consumption is a function of economies of scale from a growing population, so a shrinking population will not consume at the same rate, even though the resources are there to exploit.

Spay and neuter procedures and health checks have been provided to more than 80,000 street dogs in their area resulting in a smaller, healthier and ever shrinking population of street dogs due to their wonderful efforts.

Japan is at the leading edge of the demographic wave where many developed countries have a shrinking population.

The severity of their 1980's asset bubble, followed by the stagnation of their flat and now shrinking population is apparent on the chart.

Considering Japan's shrinking population and high debt, there's little reason to expect the next quarter century to be any different than it has been recently.

Looking forward into 2017 and beyond, Japan continues to have a shrinking population, an aging demographic, and has the single highest national debt - to - GDP ratio in the world at 230 %.

And, that's where Japan is today, facing a shrinking population with a lot of government debt, and rising demands for entitlement spending.

Cronyism A shrinking population, or something near that.

The town's problem areas include a shrinking population, low incomes and high taxes.

Thus I am not worried about overpopulation or shrinking population.

Elsewhere, education schools are under fire and also dealing with new competition, as online programs and alternative pathways vie for a shrinking population of people interested in becoming teachers.

For many reasons which will not be looked into know Russia has a shrinking population of men, to put it in simple terms there is not enough men in Russia for all of the women, this leads to a lot of competition to find a suitable Russian man to marry.

Japan has the highest median age in the world, a shade under 45 years, and is in a quiet panic about how to take care of its graying, shrinking population.

View a slide show of Honda's technology in action David Iida, a spokesperson for Honda present at the event, says the primary inspiration for the devices was the demographic shift in Japan, which has a shrinking population and the world's highest proportion of elderly people.

She recognizes that by further raising taxes on the shrinking population in Evans, she's making unpopular choices.

-- With Florida facing a shrinking population for the first time since World War II, Republican Gov. Charlie Crist and the GOP - controlled Legislature balanced a $ 5.9 billion shortfall with cuts, federal stimulus money and tax hikes, including a $ 1 - a-pack tax increase on cigarettes.

Upstate's shrinking population helps explain its economic woes, said E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative watchdog group.

Low turnout, a shrinking population and a three - way race gave Miner the second - lowest vote total of any winning mayoral candidate in the past 100 years.

Assemblyman Sean Ryan says the plan has strong support in the Assembly and Senate because legislators across New York understand the economic boost refugees are having on Upstate's shrinking population.

They failed to reverse Upstate New York's legacy of lost manufacturing, shrinking population and economic decline, he said.

Can an ever - shrinking population pay the bills for cities built for many more people than live there at present, even as they must pay the bills — financing, operating, maintaining — for all that new sprawled out suburban infrastructure?

An example being how we are to maintain a healthy world economy when fewer and fewer percentages of our population are needed to grow all the food, manufacture all the goods, and service all the needs of society during a time, within the next 60 years, of ultimately a shrinking population.

A recent study of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face of increasing public knowledge about the health risks of smoking and the shrinking population of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and erotic, images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill health.

a commentary in Austria's Der Standard regretting the «demographic catastrophe» which his original home country is now experiencing, and reminding the populace that they would need to produce about 3 children per family to reverse the trend towards a shrinking population.

But with increasing numbers of Germans unable to afford the growing costs of retirement homes, and an ageing and shrinking population, the number expected to be sent abroad in the next few years is only likely to rise.

More alarming is Baltimore's shrinking population, which dropped by nearly 1.1 percent.

A tight labor market due to the shrinking population and the ongoing economic recovery are also factors, flattening Japan's M - shaped curve, a graph showing that female participation in the workforce dips when women marry and have children.

More than 100 regional banks face dwindling prospects of growing their loan portfolios, due to the country's rapidly aging and shrinking population.

The city of Detroit has faced serious economic challenges in the past decade, with a shrinking population and tax base while trying to maintain essential services.

A shrinking population further erodes the tax base, intensifying the budget squeeze.

One segment of Japan's banking sector is struggling to stay afloat — and the country's shrinking population and ultra-low interest rates seem likely to prolong those lenders» troubles.

In her State of the City speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a reality.

The team worked out that it would take 1.2 million years under these conditions to shrink a population of the bacteria to a millionth of its original size (Astrobiology, DOI: 10.1089 / ast.2009.0439).

Shrinking populations in developed countries can maintain comfortable standards of living.

The team worked out that it would take 1.2 million years under these conditions to shrink a population of the bacteria to a millionth of its original size -LRB-...

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Its large urban districts, referred to as the «Big Eight,» have faced sharply declining enrollment due to both shrinking populations and an influx of charter schools.

And outside their regional hubs, many regional parts of Australia have shrinking populations of school age children.

Costs at public schools are managed in part because of the power of numbers; when you shrink the population, especially in an uneven fashion, you lose the power to negotiate for lower prices.

Nations with shrinking populations tend to have poor asset returns.

With no safe passage across the two nature reserves, existing plant and animal species (with already shrinking populations) would be cut adrift from their kind on the other side of the expressway.

She said TNR allows the colony to keep its turf but also shrinks its population.

We have games that start out singleplayer and add multiplayer, games that start out multiplayer and expand to MMO scales, games that start out as clear MMOs and shrink population limits, even games that change their levels of persistence throughout development.