Economic Growth and Demographic Transition in Third World Nations

Sefika Sule Erçetin, PhD, is a Professor in the Educational Administration, Supervising, Planning and Economics Department at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, and was also head of the department during the years 2007-2010 years. As project coordinator, she has directed many international and national projects on organizational intelligence, municipalities, vocational education. She is the president, board member, and founding member of the International Science Association (ISCASS). Along with ISCASS, Dr. Erçetin has organized four international symposiums and was a project team project coordinator for many national and international projects. She is also editor-in-chief of several national and international journals and has many published articles in both national and international journals. She has written seven national books, over 20 international book chapters, and edited seven international books.She is one of rare academicians in Turkey who has been interested in chaos, complexity, quantum leadership since 1990. Her other main research fields include comparative education policies; research methods on organizational intelligence, stupidity and wisdom; leadership; migration; fuzzy logic; children at risk; women and peace studies; social media; plasma leadership; quantum leadership; and women leadership models.Nilanjan Ray, PhD, is currently an Associate Professor of Marketing Management in the School of Management at Adamas University, West Bengal, India. He has teaching experience in BBA, MBA, and BCom programs as well as several years of research experience. He has guided over 50 postgraduate students' projects. Dr. Ray has published over 40 research papers in national and international refereed, peer-reviewed journals and proceedings, and he has published book chapters and edited several books. He has been a reviewer for the journals Tourism Management, the Journal of Service Marketing, the Journal of Business and Economics, and the Research Journal of Business and Management Accounting and has served as an editorial board member of several refereed journals. He has also chaired in a technical session at the IJAS Conference 2012 at Harvard University, Boston, USA. Dr. Ray is a life-member of the International Business Studies Academia. He has obtained his PhD, MCom (Marketing), and, MBA (Marketing), and STC FMRM (IIT-Kgp) degrees.Saurabh Sen, PhD, has authored many research papers and articles published in international and national journals. He also participates and presents research papers at many national and international seminars and conferences. He is a life member of the Indian Accounting Association and the founding member of its Varanasi Chamber. He qualified UGC-NET for eligibility for assistant professorship in commerce. Dr. Sen acquired master's degree in commerce with a specialization in accounts and finance and a PhD in commerce from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India.