Big Youth Population Bad for the Economy
Thanks to Dave Gardener for this article.
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It has often been said that a huge population with a large number of youth is an advantage to a country because this is a good source of labor and consumers.
However, two professors from the University of the Philippines refuted the claim, stressing the negative effects on the economy, especially in the household-savings rate.
Professors Dennis Mapa and Kristine Joy Briones from the University of the Philippines in Diliman said, “The high proportion of young dependents creates a negative effect in the aggregate household savings, which results in the decrease in the overall household-savings rate,” in their paper, “Population Dynamics and Elderly Saving: An Econometric Analysis,” presented at the recent National Academy of Science and Technology’s Annual Scientific Meeting.
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October 26th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Overpopulation & Terrorism:
Public Report of the Vice Presidents Task Force on Combatting Terrorism, February 1986. (PDF)
This Report concludes that a fundamental root cause of terrorism is the collision of overpopulation with scarce, depleted and finite resources; namely too many people fighting over too few and depleting resources.
PROFILE OF A TERRORIST
“The motivations of those who engage in terrorism are many and varied, with activities spanning industrial societies to underdeveloped regions. Fully 60 percent of the Third World population is under 20 years of age; half are 15 years or less. These population pressures create a volatile mixture of youthful aspirations that when coupled with economic and political frustrations help form a large pool of potential terrorists.” [P.1]