Optimal Control of Age-structured Populations in Economy, Demography, and the Environment

Raouf Boucekkine is Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and the University of Glasgow, UK. He is currently research co-director of the Center of Operation Research and Econometrics (CORE) at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.Natali Hritonenko is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Prairie View A&M University, USA. Yuri Yatsenko is a Professor in the School of Business at Houston Baptist University, USA.

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