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Age-Structural Transitions, Population Waves and “Political Arithmetick”

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Pool, I., Prachuabmoh, V., Tuljapurkar, S. (2005). Age-Structural Transitions, Population Waves and “Political Arithmetick”. In: Tuljapurkar, S., Pool, I., Prachuabmoh, V. (eds) Population, Resources and Development. International Studies in Population, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3464-4_1

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