期刊名称：Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific
印刷版ISSN：0252-5704
出版年度：2001
卷号：1
出版社：ESCAP, Development Research and Policy Division (DRPAD)
摘要：¡°The production of wealth is but a means to
the sustenance of man; to the satisfaction of
his wants; and to the development of his activities,
physical, mental and moral. But man himself is the
chief means of the production of that wealth of
which he is the ultimate aim¡±, so wrote Alfred
Marshall, one of the founders of modern economics.1
This quotation aptly points to the existence of inseparable
linkages between demographic dynamics
and socio-economic conditions. The aspects of
demographic dynamics that are particularly relevant
from this perspective are the size and the rate of
growth of population, its age composition and its
spatial distribution. However, the analysis of socioeconomic
implications of demographic dynamics is
inevitably fraught with many complexities.
