Roots and Fruits of Population Growth and Social Structures: Demographic and Sociological Vistas

Anson, Jon; Bartl, Walter; Kulczycki, Andrzej

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“…Some countries especially developed nations have challenges with diminishing population growth. They have had to set up a scheme to encourage a certain type of professionals and individuals with certain skill sets to migrate into their country to improve their population growth rate (Turner, 2018;Anson et al, 2019). They are also putting in place incentives to encourage procreation and childbirth.…”

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Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

Adeosun

Popogbe

2020

JHASS

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Purpose Population growth has remained a key issue facing developing economies in the world. While developed countries are experiencing diminished or negative population growth, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria are having population growth above the economic growth rate. With the deadline for the sustainable development goals approaching, attention is increasingly being focused on population growth and human capital development. Extant literature focused on population growth, human resource utilization and economic growth but this study aims to examine the effect of population growth on human resource utilization. Design/methodology/approach Using secondary data for the period 1990-2018, the study conducted unit root test and co-integration analyses to determine the stationarity and correlation in the long-run in the variables. The study used the error correction model to ascertain the speed at which shocks can be corrected in the long-run. Granger causality test was also carried out to ascertain the direction of causality among the variables. Findings The empirical results revealed that population growth has a negative and significant effect on human resource utilization. The study also revealed that unidirectional causality runs from employment rate to population growth rate and a unidirectional causality runs from employment growth rate to expected years of schooling. The Nigerian Government needs to not only control population growth but also focus on the quality of education. Originality/value The paper provides insights into the relationship between population growth and human capital utilization in Nigeria focusing on the 1986-2018 period.

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Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

Adeosun

Popogbe

2020

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“…Fatores demográficos têm sido associados à violência criminal por argumentos teóricos e análises empíricas (SOUTH;MESSNER, 2000). O crescimento, densidade e composição da população passam por processos e estruturas sociais e, por isso, seus possíveis efeitos devem ser interpretados como fatores sociais entrelaçados à estrutura e dinâmica populacional (ANSON; BARTL; KULCZYCKI, 2019).…”

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Estrutura social e dinâmica da violência: determinantes sociais dos homicídios intencionais nas microrregiões brasileiras

Bittencourt

Teixeira

2023

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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Teorias macrossociológicas da violência criminal predizem que a taxa de crimes violentos, sobretudo homicídios intencionais, aumenta em resposta às estruturas e aos processos sociais que fortalecem as motivações violentas ou enfraquecem os controles sociais da violência. Para testar estas hipóteses, utilizamos diversos modelos de regressão bi e multivariada com dados em painel e variáveis construídas com dados demográficos e de mortalidade, de acordo com a relevância teórica, para verificar se o uso de psicoativos, o acesso a armas de fogo, as estruturas sociodemográficas (crescimento e densidade populacional e proporção de homens jovens) e a prevalência da exclusão socioeconômica aumentam a taxa de homicídios intencionais nas microrregiões brasileiras, entre 1996 e 2019. A maior parte dos resultados corrobora as hipóteses de maneira significativa. Porém, o fator mais poderoso foi a taxa de homicídios do ano anterior, revelando uma tendência endógena de retroalimentação da violência no curto e médio prazos, o que pode levar à acumulação dos efeitos dos fatores estruturais dos homicídios intencionais.

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“…A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in less than 30 years (1959), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987). At the time Thomas Malthus was writing his epic book in 1798 the world population was approaching 1 billion people (Anson, Bartl & Kulczycki, 2019). A fabulous transformation took place after the industrial revolution when the world recorded 1 billion human beings around 1800 A.D.…”

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The devil in the number: Rethinking Garrett Hardin‘s The tragedy of the commons and global overpopulation crisis

Olaiya¹

2021

IJRISS

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Critiques of the misconstrued thesis of Garrett Hardin's (1968) classic essay entitled The Tragedy of the Commons from the futility of technical solution for overpopulation crisis to concern of managing the commons are well documented. However, little is known of the remote and proximate causes of the pejorative confusion about the important essay. This article engages the discursive reconstruction of Hardin's thesis focussing on the original intent, which is the unscrupulousness of unchecked human breeding as the critical factor in the tragedy of the earth's commons. Deployed is an eloquent metaphor, the devil in the number, and thematic analysis of the (Hardin's) essay and systematic review of relevant and related literature before and after the essay was published in 1968. The texts reinvent and reinforce the illogic of overpopulating the world while simultaneously pursuing the technocratic solutions to nature's burden. The article reports four marked factors that swayed the perception of Hardin's thesis. In effect, the attempt stimulates a discourse showcasing the significance of Hardin's essay, particularly the global lackadaisical attitude towards overpopulation as a strategic, if not the single most important, factor in the overburdened ecosystem and, by extension, as the harbinger for the socioeconomic and governance crisis across the global divides.

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Roots and Fruits of Population Growth and Social Structures: Demographic and Sociological Vistas

Cited by 6 publications

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Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

Estrutura social e dinâmica da violência: determinantes sociais dos homicídios intencionais nas microrregiões brasileiras

The devil in the number: Rethinking Garrett Hardin‘s The tragedy of the commons and global overpopulation crisis

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