Siberia is sparsely inhabited because of a worldwide trend of population movement to cities, and because it is part of a very large country with a proportionally very small population.
Slowing the economy, such a trend could increase the share of the population relying on government transfers, leading to a vicious cycle (Alesina and Wacziarg 1998).
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Hoppe says that even when the role of rising population in storm paths is removed from the accelerating trend in losses, climate change emerges as a clear factor in the increased losses.
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Other data sources have blamed the lingering employment woes on a gap in the skills needed and those available, geographical constraints tied to the still-difficult housing market and the increase in the number of people dropping out of the workforce, a trend that is tied to an aging population.
As a result of increased investment and a continuation of the urbanization trend, these cities will benefit from significant population growth and the need for new residential and commercial facilities.
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But one as yet unstudied side-effect of this social trend appears to be an explosion in the cat population.
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The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
Raising Japan's trend growth rate would be difficult, especially as the population ages and shrinks.
Inner London saw some places losing the white British population, but quite a number - coloured blue - bucked the trend and recorded an increase.
But in the long term later retirement counters the trend to slowing labour force growth caused by an ageing population, more years spent in college, and a levelling out of women's participation.
That trend is set to continue, not least because the Russian population is shrinking.
It's not just that there a lot more homes now--housing stock has actually been growing much faster than the population over the past couple of decades--but on top of the trend to fewer people per home, the average home's square footage has ballooned by 30%.
This trend supports a projected rise in values-based investing, and since the Muslim population is expected to grow at twice the rate of the non-Muslim population over the next two decades, we can assume that growth of Islamic finance will continue.
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At Intel, we track health reform in 22 countries, and we see a global trend toward collective payment paying groups of providers to manage the health of a population based on value rather than volume of procedures.
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Roma, with its high population of hipsters and fashion-forward residents, is the place to go for eating on-trend food (Vietnamese and Japanese this year) in cafes such as Mog, a restaurant adorned with antique picture frames and wooden mannequin limbs.
This trend has restored some semblance of household wealth for homeowners from low income and middle income sectors of the population.
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