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Week 38: Tajikistan (opens the original)
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In the Chad post, we discussed how a law passed in the 1920s in France continued to shape what’s happening in the country today with respect to family planning. Today’s post has echoes of that, but with a decision on a different demographic domain: migration. In the late 1920s and 30s, Moscow decided that Tajikistan would grow cotton. This was oriented to Soviet, rather than local needs, and cotton production basically undermined other industries needed for
Week 37: Bhutan (opens the original)
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Bhutan’s leaders famously decided in the 1970s that they would eschew global norms and measure the wealth of its people not by the country’s GDP, but its happiness. It set forth to measure prosperity through principles of Gross National Happiness (GNH) which include the spiritual, physical, social and environmental health of its citizens and natural environment. So far, so good. Yet, the country is living through a time of mass exodus of its brightest youth and <a href="https://openknowledge.wor
Week 36: Central African Republic (opens the original)
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If we were in grad school, we would be inching towards a capstone after 9 months of classes. Something that brings all the concepts together and ties it together in a shiny bow. The next few demographic pairings come close to being just that.You might have heard that a country has a “favorable/unfavorable” dependency ratio. It’s a phrase that turns up just about everywhere. From policy reports to investment forecasts to ministerial speeches and so on. Everyone sort of nods along. But favorable f
Week 35: United Arab Emirates (opens the original)
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What happens when a majority of a country’s population comprises international migrants? Well, first, the food is amazing. But more than that, it literally shapes the way the country works, votes, and looks among other facets, and reveals a demographic imbalance. This is in sharp contrast to our demographic opposite from last week, Cuba, with virtually no international migrant stock. For the United Arab E
Week 34: Cuba (opens the original)
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Back in the early weeks of this Substack, we looked at the top destination and origin countries for migrants (USA and Mexico). A few weeks ago, we looked at the top refugee hosts and refugee origin countries (Türkiye and Syria). All those are concerned with the <em
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