Macroeconomics
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Author: Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean Masaki Flynn Dr.
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Chapter 8, Problem 11DQ
To determine
Relation between the fertility rate and growth and the impact of inverse dependency ratio on the growth of real GDP .
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