Demographic Perspectives on Saudi Arabia's Development
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Looney, Robert E.
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1985-06
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1985-06
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Until recently, development was widely regarded as a largely
economic phenomenon. As a result, the main quantitative indicator
of.' a country's development status was its gross domestic
product. While this index does measure one of the key aspects
of development, the accumulation of wealth and productive power,
it is clearly inadequate as an indicator of the country's social
and institutional characteristics and level of progress. In particular,
pure economic measures of development are often quite
weakly connected to some of the demographic determinants of fertility
and mortality, themselves presumed to be a function as
well as determinant of economic growth (Adelman and Morris 1965).
Nowhere is the discrepancy between per capita income and the
normal patterns of demographic change more obvious than in Saudi
Arabia.
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Population Bulletin of the UN Economic Commission for West Asia, June 1985.
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Looney, R.E., "Demographic Perspectives on Saudi Arabia's Development," Population Bulletin of the UN Economic Commission for West Asia, June 1985.
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