17 February 2014
POPNET Newsletter 45, Winter 2013/14
Among other information, POPNET 45 features a summary of the latest paper by Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Wolfgang Lutz and Warren C. Sanderson in Demography, entitled "Is the Demographic Dividend an Education Dividend?" It sheds new light on our understanding of the effects of population change on economic growth, with education rather than fertility decline being the main demographic driver.
POPNET 45 summarizes the four-year collaborative project within the European Commission 7th Framework program—"AGENTA: Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances"— which began in January 2014. Nine partners across Europe will take part in the project, with the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) acting as coordinator.
The forthcoming Special Feature in Ecology and Society edited by William P. Butz, Wolfgang Lutz and Jan Sendzimir will present evidence that shows that education is reducing vulnerability to natural disasters and hence unavoidable climate change.
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