Falling births, fewer marriages and the concentration of people around Baku are turning demography from an abstract statistic into a long-term economic risk. The Great Return may partly reshape Azerbaijan’s settlement map, but constructing houses is not the same as building viable towns and villages. For years, Azerbaijan regarded population growth as a natural extension of economic development. Oil revenues transformed Baku, the country...

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