The Population Factor in the Economies of Southern Africa

J. L. Sadie

A chapter in Accelerated Development in Southern Africa, 1974, pp 61-76 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Population, as a factor in the economy, has two dimensions: a qualitative and a quantitative. Viewed quantitatively, it can be both a depressant and a stimulant The former function is easily appreciated when numbers are considered as the divisor in the ratio national product/population, which yields the product per capita. The larger the denominator, the smaller the ratio. Population is a stimulant when its increase is a motive force evoking economic action which would not have materialised otherwise.

Keywords: Labour Force; Accelerate Development; Southern African Region; Southern African Country; Subsistence Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1974
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02056-0_5

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