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" ... this publication provides a conceptual framework on innovation in governance and tackles key questions, including why governments need to innovate; what are the emerging principles and strategies in governance and public administration innovation for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); and what is innovation in governance"--P. ix

This publication sheds light on the many challenges and opportunities of innovations in governance as a developmental tool. By providing governments with a menu of innovations to solve economic and social problems effectively and with tools to adapt to their own context, the international community can play a critical role in promoting good governance.--Publisher's description

Projections to 2050 -- Projections after 2050: long-range growth and decline -- Country rankings -- Population density -- Ageing populations -- Towards an understanding of the emotions in the population of 2300 / Alaka Basu -- An intergenerational rationale for fertility assumptions in long-range world population projections / Herwig Birg -- The implications of the United Nations long-range population projections / John Caldwell -- Comparing long-range global population projections with historical experience / Joel Cohen -- World population in 2300: a century too far? / David Coleman -- Population futures for the next three hundred years: soft landing or surprises to come? / Paul Demeny -- Why the world's population will probably be less than 9 billion in 2300 / Timothy Dyson -- Reflections on the next few centuries / Franc̦ois Héran -- The future of human life expectancy / S. Jay Olshansky -- Projecting the unknowable: a professional effort sure to be misinterpreted / Michael Teitelbaum -- The implications of the United Nations long-range population projections: continuing rapid population growth / Charles F. Westoff -- Foretelling the future / John R. Wilmoth

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