Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Birdsall, Nancy.
• Kelley, Allen C.
• Sinding, Steven W.

Description

xvi, 440 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

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. -- Publisher description.

Alternative Title

Demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world

Subject

• Demographic transition > Developing countries
• Developing countries > Economic aspects
• Poverty > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 [and others] -- 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.

ISBN

0199244073

LCCN

^^2001024734

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library