African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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286 p., Explores three sets of issues. First covers questions of work and retirement, income and wealth, and living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. It also explores the relation between the life cycle and poverty. Second is the question of the health transition. How does the demographic transition impact the health status of the population and the demand for health care? And how advanced is the health transition in LAC? Third is an understanding of the fiscal pressures that are likely to accompany population aging and to disentangle the role of demography from the role of policy in that process.
On April 1, 1680, Sir Jonathan Atkins, governor of Barbados, sent a box full of statistical data about his island to the Plantation Office at Whitehall. This mass of data, filed away among the Colonial Office papers, constitutes the most comprehensive surviving census of any English colony in the 17th century.
37 p., Discusses the evolution of housing conditions in urban areas of Latin America and the Caribbean from 1995 to 2006 based on data from household surveys done in 18 countries that comprise 95 percent of the urban population of the region. The results indicate that, on average, the proportion of urban households facing housing shortages is declining. This decline holds for households of all income levels, particularly those in the lower quintiles of the income distribution structure. The estimates made in this study indicate that in 2006 lack of infrastructure affected almost 19 million households.
Presented at a conference on "Changing Patterns in the Caribbean," University of Wichita, June 13, 1961., "We are interested not only in the size of population in the Caribbean area at present, but in the rates of population increase. In the West Indies, the highest birth rates (40 and over per thousand population) are found in islands which include about 23 percent of the population (the Windward Islands, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, the Leewards, Guadeloupe, and Martinique). Birth rates that intermediates for the West Indies (35 to 37) are found in 41 percent of the region's population (Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and Haiti). The lowest level of fertility in the West Indies (33 or less) is found in 36 percent of the Caribbean population (Cuba, Barbados, and the Netherlands Antilles)."
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2 pp., Costa Rica is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the World due to the tectonic interaction of the Cocos and Caribbean plates. Earthquakes, and other natural hazards, place major stress on the country's population, infrastructure and economy, and often result in the disruption of basic services. In response to this, the Government of Costa Rica is continuously working to build the capacity of technicians to design effective disaster risk management policies and investments to reduce seismic risk.
