Causes of Declining Growth in Industrialized Countries

Information And Communication Technology Externalities And Economic Growth In Newly Industrialized Countries

Potential Growth Declined ? The Case of Germany Chart 1 Growth Rates of Industrial Countries

Since the 1950s, economic growth rates in industrialized countries have declined. Whereas the per capita growth rate of gross domestic product in industrial countries was 3.7 in the 1950s ind 4.2 in the 1960s, the growth rate came down to 3.0 in the 1970s and to 2.1 in the 1980s (Table 1). This picture of declining growth rates is even stronger when the growth rate is not expressed on a per cap...

Declining fertility and economic well-being: do education and health ride to the rescue?

It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated behavioral changes. We formalize these arguments by setting forth a dynamic consumer optimization mod...

Population aging: a comparison among industrialized countries.

Increasing longevity and declining fertility rates are shifting the age distribution of populations in industrialized countries toward older age groups. Some countries will experience this demographic shift before others will. In this DataWatch we compare the effects of population aging on health spending, retirement policies, use of long-term care services, workforce composition, and income ac...

Declining Out-of-Hospital Sudden Coronary Death Rates

B eginning at the turn of the 20th century, death rates attributed to coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United States rose continually, reaching epidemic proportions by the mid-1960s. Since that time, the mortality rate due to CHD has markedly decreased.'-4 Internationally, inconsistent trends in CHD mortality rates have taken place. Favorable declines in these death rates have been seen sinc...