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The document discusses India's demographic dividend, which refers to accelerated economic growth that occurs when a large proportion of the population is of working age. As fertility rates fall and longevity increases in India, the dependency ratio has decreased to around 0.6, indicating more working-age people relative to non-working dependents. However, to reap the benefits of the demographic dividend, India must implement policies like improving access to education, healthcare, financial inclusion, and generating adequate employment to ensure its growing workforce contributes productively to the economy. The Planning Commission of India recognizes the need to exploit the dividend to expand economic opportunities and meet the projected shortage of 56 million skilled workers globally by 2020.
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Preface
The world is facing a situation without precedent: We soon will have more older people than
children and more people at extreme old age than ever before. As both the proportion of older
people and the length of life increase throughout the world, key questions arise. Will population
aging be accompanied by a longer period of good health, a sustained sense of well-being, and
extended periods of social engagement and productivity, or will it be associated with more illness,
disability, and dependency? How will aging affect health care and social costs? Are these futures
inevitable, or can we act to establish a physical and social infrastructure that might foster better
health and wellbeing in older age? How will population aging play out differently for low-income
countries that will age faster than their counterparts have, but before they become industrialized
and wealthy?
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between health with age is crucial if we are to create a future that takes full advantage of the
powerful resource inherent in older populations. To do so, nations must develop appropriate
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5. The size of a country\'s population and the associated age distribution can be causa; factors for
enonmic growth. Why is the size of the population important to economic development? Can
size be a disadvantage? Why is age distribution so important?
7. Technology can impact economic development on both a macro and micro level. What types
of technology do we need to have such impacts on a macro basis? on a micro basis?
8. Robotics have attracted more attention in recent yeaars. Why? How are robots being used in
supply chain?
Solution
5.
The effect of population growth can be positive or negative depending on the circumstances. A
large population has the potential to be great for economic development: after all, the more
people you have, the more work is done, and the more work is done, the more value (or, in other
words, money) is created. So, surely this can be nothing but good. There\'s a reason that farmers
often have a lot of kids - more kids means more workers.
But, unfortunately, it isn\'t that simple. In a country with abundant resources and money - a rich
country - perhaps more people is a good thing. But that isn\'t always the case in countries with
limited resources. Limited resources and a larger population puts pressures on the resources that
do exist. More people means more mouths to feed, more health care and education services to
provide, and so forth. So, population can be a mixed bag.
Age distribution, also called Age Composition, in population studies, the proportionate numbers
of persons in successive age categories in a given population. Age distributions differ among
countries mainly because of differences in the levels and trends of fertility. A population with
persistently highfertility, for instance, has a large proportion of children and a small proportion
of aged persons. A population, such as that of France, in which fertility has been low for a long
time, has a smaller proportion of children and a larger proportion of aged persons. Changes in
fertility have an immediate effect on numbers of children, but many years must pass before the
change affects the numbers above childhood. Thus, a population that has experienced a recent
decline in fertility tends to have relatively small numbers both of children and of aged persons
and a large proportion of adults in the middle ages.
Age distributions have also been influenced in varying ways by migrations, war losses, and
differences in mortality—though these effects are generally less important than the influence of
variations in fertility. Yet the migration of young adults, who bring children with them or soon
have children in the area to which they move, is likely to swell the number both of adults in the
middle ages and of children in the receiving country, while the proportion of aged persons
remains low—with reverse effects on the population of an area from which there is a large net
out movement.
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