[On the threshold of the year 2000: reflections on demographic economic and environmental characteristics]

This book contains seven articles on speculations as to what the world will be like in the year 2000. Topics covered include the two demographic systems into which the countries of the world are divided; demographic aging using the example of Italy; international migration; technological progress and the labor force; the lack of infrastructure in the third world; economic accountability and the environment; and the role of agriculture and forest resources in the economic and environmental equilibrium of the world. (ANNOTATION)