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  • Africa's Demographic Transition

    Dividend or Disaster?

    Edited by David Canning, Sangeeta Raja, Abdo S. Yazbeck ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a 'bulge' generation and a large number of working age people, giving a boost to the economy. In the short run lower fertility leads to lower ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa's Demographic Transition

    Dividend or Disaster?

    Edited by David Canning, Sangeeta Raja, Abdo S. Yazbeck ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a 'bulge' generation and a large number of working age people, giving a boost to the economy. In the short run lower fertility leads to lower ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

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    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

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  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
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    Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public health care is unsustainable, especially in light of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Population and Society

    by Clare Holdsworth, Nissa Finney, Alan Marshall, Paul D Norman ...
    "An excellent introduction to the study of population and its significance for many of the key social, political, cultural and environmental issues facing the world today. It covers population growth, ageing, migration and mobility, parenting, health inequalities, and much more... The authors do not shy away from areas of continuing debate, providing both sides of an argument and encouraging ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Population and Society

    An Introduction

    by Gregg Lee Carter ...
    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Read more

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  • Why Demography Matters

    by Danny Dorling, Stuart Gietel-Basten ...
    Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.'Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per adult: our population is about to stabilize, though we do not know when or at what number, or what will happen after that. It will be ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • How Population Change Will Transform Our World

    by Sarah Harper ...
    Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our populations over the 21st century. In this new addition to the 21st Century Challenges series, Sarah Harper works to dispel myths such as the fear of unstoppable global ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Profit Is Not the Cure

    A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare

    by Maude Barlow ...
    On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.More than thirty years later, the same battle is being fought all over again. Only now, the forces opposed to medicare are more ideologically unified, more ... Read more

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  • Understanding Poverty

    Edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Benabou, Dilip Mookherjee ...
    Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their ... Read more

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  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Read more

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  • Getting Health Reform Right

    A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

    by Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Michael Reich ...
    This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

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