INTRODUCTIONThis paper falls into three sections. A t first, we look at demographic-economic forecasting models, and the import,snce of forecasting population within a demographic-economic context. Several different models, which deal with the important linkages and variables of personal consumption, migration, and unemployment in different ways, are reviewed. A solution to the joint problem of consumption and unemployment is offered that uses the technique of activity-commodity analysis. In the second section the capacity of activity-commodity analysis for offering analytic insights into demographic-economic interaction is discussed, and the relationship between three differmt types of income multiplier investigated. Lastly, we suggest a use of activity-commodity frameworks as contexts for control: the development of target and instrument variables, and their application in demographic-economic analysis, is introduced.
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