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• Why The Ratings Agencies Are Right And George Papaconstantinou Is Wrong

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 584
  The Greek government is having a hard time of it at the moment. Only today the Finance Ministry issued a statement that it was ready to “intensify its efforts to restore the viability of fiscal and economic trends in Greece” in response to the Moody’s decision to downgrade the country’s credit rating, while ...
  23 hours ago

• Google Wave - Europe’s Ageing Population

  
  Economics — Authority: 138
  According to the Centre for European Reform, “Europe stands on the cusp of a demographic revolution. Europe’s changing demographic profile poses political, economic and social challenges that are as important as climate change, security and globalisation.” Our latest Google wave considered some of these ...
  1 day ago

• Demography Decides Everything

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 139
  In the United States, government policies have been in direct contradiction of what native-born and naturalized citizens want. If the latter had there way, there would not have been a sharp increase in the population. Instead, the government has pursued policies that increase, largely through legal and illegal ...
  2 days ago

• KERKÜK’TEKİ DEMOGRAFİK YAPI DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ RAPORU

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 136
    KERKÜK’TEKİ DEMOGRAFİK YAPI DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ RAPORU    Bir Türkmen şehri olan Kerkük’ün, 2003 yılından itibaren işgalci ABD ve İngiltere’nin göz yummasıyla bölgedeki Kürtler tarafından demografik yapısı hızlı bir şekilde değiştirilmeye çalışılmaktadır. ...
  4 days ago

• a recession today keeps the divorce lawyer away

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 121
  The Christian Science Monitor recently reported on shifting trends in divorce rates during the Great Recession: The divorce rate fell 4 percent in 2008 to 16.9 divorces per 1,000 married women, according to Census Bureau data. It had previously been on an upward path, rising from 16.4 divorces per 1,000 married ...
  5 days ago

• A magic conservation number

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 114
  Although I’ve already blogged about our recent paper in Biological Conservation on minimum viable population sizes, American Scientist just did a great little article on the paper and concept that I’ll share with you here: Imagine how useful it would be if someone calculated the minimum population ...
  1 week ago

• So What’s It All About, Costas?

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 584
  All the recent critical attention which has been directed towards Greece of late might seem surprising to some (or part of a global anti-PIGS conspiracy, to others) since, on the face of it, the Greek economy had managed over the last decade to appear to be something of a success story. Indeed the economy clock-up a ...
  1 week ago

• The Scots Are Bastards Too (its not just the Welsh)

  
  UK Commentators — Authority: 426
  Oh, alright - it will actually take some time before the majority of Scots are born outside wedlock, just as it will for the Welsh. But their 2008 births have hit that magic 50% total. The latest ONS Population Trends stats (pdf) are out. Links to the historic data as far back as 1997 are here . Headline figure ...
  1 week ago

• Freedom, Welfare, and the Future

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 415
  The welfare state, or what we conceive of as such today, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Although pre-modern states did perform some pro-welfare functions such as regulating prices and wages, maintaining workhouses for the poor and even a limited form of targeted social support [1] , this spending was framed not in ...
  1 week ago

• Only one, please

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 125
  Reacting to an opinion article in a Canadian publication suggesting that the world needs a one-child policy, a post at the Volokh conspiracy notes: A welfare state is in one sense a big Ponzi scheme. Without increasing numbers of people entering the scheme, there is no money to pay the people receiving the money. ...
  1 week ago

• A Fistful of Umlauts

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 584
  In which the Frankfurter Allgemeine, the German newspaper whose website has meanwhile gotten much better, interviews Edward . He says things such as “Um das zu erreichen müssen Preise und Löhne für Jahre um 6,5 Prozent fallen.” and “Denn die Unverantwortlichkeit der spanischen Regierung gefährdet ...
  1 week ago

• Hey, lets limit the whole world to one child only

  
  Pundit & Pundette — Authority: 616
  If only the rest of the world were more like China with its sensible, planet-friendly one-child-only policy, implemented with forced abortions when necessary. Thats what Diane Francis of Canadas Financial Post thinks. And shes lost patience with our short-sighted world leaders who arent pushing this obvious cure-all: ...
  1 week ago

• Revisiting pension wisdom

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 584
  As Edward’s post below indicates, the ECB seems to be in a pre-Christmas rush of visibility to set out its opinions on various issues.  Jean-Claude Trichet delivered a speech on the topic of systemic risk at Clare College, Cambridge, today and it’s a nice roundup of the analytical progress so far and ...
  1 week ago

• Fascinating, first it was China Daily, now Canada:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  “The real inconvenient truth The whole world needs to adopt China’s one-child policy Diane Francis, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 …..The “inconvenient truth” overhanging the UN’s Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating ...
  1 week ago

• immigrant workers: doing it all for you

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 121
  The New York Times reports that the number of foreign-born workers is on the rise in the U.S. Nearly one in six American workers is foreign-born, the highest proportion since the 1920s, according to a census analysis released Monday. Because of government barriers to immigration, the share of foreign-born workers ...
  1 week ago

• Demographic collapse in socialist paradise

  
  C-POL: Constitutionalist, conservative politics — Authority: 118
  Mark Steyn writes that Vermont (a state renowned for not only tolerating socialists, but electing them as well) is suffering demographic collapse, with children composing a steadily decreasing percentage of an otherwise-stable population: Throughout Vermont, student enrollment at public elementary and secondary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book on Tibet in 21st century released

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Tourism Minister Kumari Selja Tuesday released a book on Tibet that encompasses the demography, lifestyle and economy of the region in the 21st century.Authored by Parvez Dewan and Siddharth Srivastva, the book is called “Tibet - 50 years after”.Talking about the book during the launch ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 Myths about Russia’s Demography

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 415
  This post tries to debunk some popular, but misguided, views on demographic trends in today’s Russia. These  consist of the perception that Russia is in a demographic “death spiral” that dooms it to national decline, or even extinction ( Biden ,  Eberstadt , NIC, CIA, Stratfor, etc). Some extreme pessimists ...
  2 weeks ago

• The New Converts

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 138
  Anshel Pfeffer, writing for Common Ground News Service , 3-9 December 2009 JERUSALEM – Twelve thousand Ethiopians live around a compound in the city of Gondar. They left their villages for a promise of a better life in a new country. The compound is operated through the contributions of American Jews and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 415
  One of the most interesting emerging sciences today, in my opinion, is cliodynamics . Their practitioners attempt to come to with mathematical models of history to explain “big history” – things like the rise of empires, social discontent, civil wars, and state collapse. To the casual observer history may ...
  2 weeks ago

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