Product Description: China and India, the world¹s two most populous countries, will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades. This document assesses the relative prospects of China and India through 2025 in four domains: demography, macroeconomics, science and technology, and defense spending and procurement...read more

Product Description: In the last few decades of the 20th century, Russian demographics underwent some important changes, including lower fertility rates and higher death rates. This report reviews the factors behind these trends and shows that they raise substantial challenges for policymakers within Russia...read more

Product Description: During the last several years, the Russian public and Russian policymakers have been becoming increasingly concerned about demographic trends in their country. The six papers in this volume reflect the current state of knowledge in two broad categories: (1) fertility and family planning; and (2) issues in the area of health and morality--health status, health care, and population growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Immigration to the United States poses major challenges to society--and it is clearly a force on the rise. As the nation debates how immigrants affect society and the economy and how best to absorb them, participants at every level need more information about immigrants and how they affect the national life...read more