Poverty and mortality in the context of economic growth and urbanization / John C. Caldwell and Bruce K. Caldwell.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Caldwell, John C., author.

Contributor:

Caldwell, Bruce, Dr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 17, no. 4, p. 49-66 17:4<49 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2002.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Asia has always been a demographic giant, but in the second half of the twentieth century it also became an economic giant. In those 50 years, real per capita income (expressed in purchasing power parity) in Asia multiplied by more than five, compared with a multiplication in Western countries of little more than threefold, and in Latin America and Africa by 2.3 and 1.6 times, respectively (Maddison, 2001). During this half century, the world GDP in fixed United States dollars multiplied six times but that of Asia did so by more than 12 times, taking the continent's proportion of the world economy from 18 to 36 per century That growth was fundamental to the mortality revolution outlined here but it was also achieved by massive urbanization, producing huge cities with savage contrasts between the living conditions of the poor and the rich. Asian urban population multiplied over eightfold from under one quarter of a billion to over two billion, and will by 2020 constitute half the population. This was partly the product of hundreds of millions of poor villagers streaming into illegal shanty towns, especially around the largest cities.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.