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Articles | Volume 77, issue 1
Articles | Volume 77, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-141-2022
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Articles | Volume 77, issue 1
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25 Mar 2022
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“It makes the buzz” – putting the demographic dividend under scrutiny

Michael Hilbig, Elke Loichinger, and Bernhard Köppen

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The demographic dividend (DD) is one of the most important concepts within development cooperation. It was high time that the concept of the DD was put under scrutiny. Our findings reveal that simplistic demographic explanations for economic growth are appealing to political leaders and decision makers. We argue that the promotion of the DD to decision makers works as a low-level vehicle to achieve support for broader sets of multi-sectoral policies, which we call a positive demographization.
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(Re)Thinking population geography