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Who's afraid of low support ratios? a UK response to the UN Population Division report on 'Replacement Migration'

@inproceedings{Coleman2000WhosAO,
  title={Who's afraid of low support ratios? a UK response to the UN Population Division report on 'Replacement Migration'},
  author={David A. Coleman},
  year={2000}
}
The views expressed in the paper are those of the author and do not imply the expression of any opinion on the part of the United Nations Secretariat. Acknowledgements The projections in this paper were entirely the work of Mr Chris Shaw and Mr Adam Michaels of the UK Government Actuary's Department, without whose generous expert help this paper could not have been written. These projections will be developed further for publication under their authorship later in 2000. The interpretations… 
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