In common with other Arab countries, it has favourable demographic trends, with a growing labour force and a declining dependency rate (children and pensioners as a share of the working-age population).
It is perfectly possible to have a free and vigorous debate without defaming anyone, as occurs often in Singapore.Chang Li Lin Press secretary to the prime minister SingaporeHaving fewer people worksSIR – It is time you abandoned the bugbear of the declining dependency ratio between the numbers of those working and those supported by them ("Quality time", May 31st).
As expected, the genome size reflects the declining dependency on one of the major benefits of plastids, photosynthesis.
And while Venezuelan exports of oil are in decline, its dependency on American refineries for refined petroleum products has grown to nearly 200,000 barrels a day because of several recent Venezuelan refinery accidents.
If the Welsh town of Merthyr Tydfil sits anywhere in the thoughts of Britain's elites, it is probably as a fuzzy byword for very bad things indeed: long-term economic decline, welfare dependency, lives so far from the London dream that to some people, they look grimly exotic.
Progression of functional decline and dependency, however, may be more rapid [ 40].
LTC residents with diabetes have more falls (122), higher rates of CVD and depression, more functional impairment, and more cognitive decline and dependency than residents without diabetes (123).
If a participant change in Care Needs Level was calculated to be greater than zero or equal to zero when the subject remained at Care Level 5 throughout all study periods, this was defined as a decline in dependency level was defined and coded as decline in functional status.
6 In addition to fatal and severe injuries such as hip fractures and head injuries, the consequences of falls are broad and contribute to immobility and premature institutionalization. 1, 7, 8 Prospective cohort studies indicate that falls seem to be an independent determinant for functional decline and dependency in activities of daily living (ADL) in a general elderly population.
Demographers estimate that declines in dependency ratios are responsible for about a third of the East Asian economic miracle of the postwar era; this is a part of the world that, in the course of twenty-five yearsawsaw its dependency ratio decline thirty-five per cent.
