Population matters : demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world / edited by Nancy Birdsall, Allen C. Kelley, Steve Sinding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birdsall, Nancy.

Kelley, Allen C.

Sinding, Steven W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demographic transition.

Population.

Developing countries--Population--Economic aspects.

Developing countries.

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Demographic transition--Developing countries.

Local Subjects:

Developing countries--Population--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Does rapid population growth diminish countries' economic development prospects? Do policies aimed at reducing high fertility help families escape poverty? These questions have been at the heart of policy debates since the time of Malthus, and have been particularly heated during the last half-century of explosive Third World population growth. In this carefully constructed collection of recent studies and analyses, the authors offer a nuanced, yet clear and positive answer to these questions---a refreshing step forward from the ambiguous conclusions of much of the literature of the 1970s and 1980s.

Contents:

How and why population matters : new findings, new issues / Nancy Birdsall and Steven W. Sinding

The population debate in historical perspective : revisionism revised / Allen C. Kelley

Dependency burdens in the developing world / John Bongaarts

Economic and demographic change : a synthesis of models, findings, and perspectives / Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt

Demographic change, economic growth, and inequality / Jeffrey G. Williamson

Saving, wealth, and population / Ronald D. Lee, Andrew Mason, and Tim Miller

Cumulative causality, economic growth, and the demographic transition / David Bloom and David Canning

Population and poverty in households : a review of reviews / Thomas Merrick

Demographic transition and poverty : effects via economic growth, distribution, and conversion / Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton

Inequality and the family in Latin America / Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Székely

Demographic changes and poverty in Brazil / Ricardo Paes de Barros ... [et al.]

Rural population growth, agricultural change, and natural resource management in developing countries : a review of hypotheses and some evidence from Honduras / John Pender

Why micro matters / Jere R. Behrman

New findings in economics and demography : implications for policies to reduce poverty / Nancy Birdsall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199244073

OCLC:

46785340