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Fig. 14.1 “Islands” of young women surplus against zone of young men surplus
In system terms these structures are called “success to successful” feedback loops. They
tend to be endemic in any society that does not consciously implement counterbalancing
structures to level the playing field. (Meadows et al., 2004 , p. 44)
One of advantages of using a questionnaire about the living standards of Serbia's
citizens instead of common GDP refers to the fact that size or wealth of the economy
is not such an important predictor as it is the extent to which economic improvement
actually touches the lives of all families, and especially the lives of women. In this
chapter, quantiles of consumption were used as a basic indicator of the living stan-
dard of people. The spatial distribution of the sex ratio of those aged 20-39 years, as