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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 01:55:56 +0000
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From: Ben Feldman <bfeldman@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Population Growth decreasing
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>The Chronicle of Higher Education
>for Wednesday, October 1.
>
>MAGAZINES & JOURNALS
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>A glance at the fall issue of "The Public Interest":
>The coming world population implosion
>
>Some of the world's best demographers have begun a dramatic
>reassessment of the world's demographic future, forecasting an
>indefinite decline in population, which could have serious
>implications for higher education, writes Nicholas Eberstadt.
>The forthcoming edition of the United Nations' biennial report
>on future population trends anticipates zero population growth
>for the world as a whole by the year 2040, and negative growth,
>or a decrease in population, thereafter. Mr. Eberstadt -- an
>expert on demographics, international development, and foreign
>aid who is a visiting fellow at Harvard University -- writes
>that negative population growth would intensify the mismatch
>between an educational system designed to train people when they
>are young and the desire of workers to enjoy a long and
>worthwhile career in an increasingly complex economy.  He
>concludes that if the population forecasts prove true,
>higher-education institutions and their routines would have to
>be fundamentally re-examined and recast.  (The journal can be
>found at newsstands and at libraries.)
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Ben Feldman
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