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Nicholas Chamie , global head of emerging-markets research at RBC Capital Markets said the exodus from the local currency said the timing of the selloff in emerging-market bonds, coming well after other riskier markets had started selling off in July, is typical.
Emerging Markets Tumble World-Wide Tom Lauricella 2011
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The post is about an essay by Joseph Chamie which recently appeared in YaleGlobal and was largely discredited by the Economist shortly thereafter.
Wonk Room » Treehugger Post Poses Anti-Immigration Population Control Argument 2009
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According to Chamie, reducing immigration would magically solve “domestic problems as well as many of those abroad, especially energy and resource consumption, climate change and environmental sustainability.”
Wonk Room » Treehugger Post Poses Anti-Immigration Population Control Argument 2009
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Chamie also randomly injects race and ethnicity into his assessment — a point that has little bearing on his overall argument other than to severely weaken it:
Wonk Room » Treehugger Post Poses Anti-Immigration Population Control Argument 2009
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Such growth, Chamie told NEWSWEEK, was "simply beyond the carrying capacity of an already beleaguered continent."
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So not only is the population growth slowing, it is rapidly slowing and the stabilisation figure according to Chamie will be above 9 billion by the end of the 21st century not the 22nd century as thought in 2000.
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Chamie also presents some interesting figures as to population growth.
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The new forecast of 8.9 billion for mid-century was the medium variant, Chamie said, with a low variant of 7.4 billion and a high of 10.6 billion.
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Asked about the accuracy of UN projections, Chamie recalled that in 1951 it projected global population of 6.28 billion by the turn of the century.
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Chamie, director of the United Nations Population Division, which prepared the chart.
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