I developed a model on Russia’s future demographic development in Matlab. First, I will describe (non-mathematically) the essentials of how it works; then I will present a range of different possible scenarios. Our data is sourced from Rosstat and the Human Mortality Database. Demography is a social science, and as such it is impossible to […]
Archives for July 2008
Demography III – Faces of the Future
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about Demographics, and tagged , was written
by Anatoly Karlin on July 21, 2008 . 18 Comments
News 21 July: Expansion amidst Turbulence
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about Politics, and tagged , was written
by Anatoly Karlin on July 21, 2008 . 2 Comments
Let’s start with two excellent new resources I’ve recently come across. Russia: Other Points of View states its objectives thus: We believe there is need in the public forum for a venue which offers opinions and facts that at times may differ from the prevailing view in western media. Hmm… Sounds quite similar to Da […]
Education as the Elixir of Growth II
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by Anatoly Karlin on July 18, 2008 . 1 Comment
A while ago I wrote Education as the Elixir of Growth on DR, in which I noted that in most countries the educational profile is closely correlated to their level of productivity. The major exceptions are nations with resource windfalls (inflated productivity) and socialist legacies (deflated productivity). Furthermore, the greater the gap between the ‘potential […]
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