Population matters : demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Setting the Stage
- 1. How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues
- Nancy Birdsall and Steven W Sinding
- 2. The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised
- Allen C. Kelley
- 3. Dependency Burdens in the Developing World
- John Bongaarts
- Part II. Population Change and the Economy
- 4. Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models,
- Findings, and Perspectives
- Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt
- 5. Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Inequality
- Jeffrey G. Williamson
- 6. Saving, Wealth, and Population
- Ronald D. Lee, Andrew Mason, and Tim Miller
- 7. Cumulative Causality, Economic Growth, and
- the Demographic Transition
- David Bloom and David Canning
- Part III. Fertility, Poverty, and the Family
- 8. Population and Poverty in Households: A Review of Reviews
- Thomas Merrick
- 9. Demographic Transition and Poverty: Effects via Economic
- Growth, Distribution, and Conversion
- Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton
- 10. Inequality and the Family in Latin America
- Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Szekely
- 11. Demographic Changes and Poverty in Brazil
- Ricardo Paes de Barros, Sergio Firpo, Roberta Guedes Barreto, and
- Phillippe George Pereira Leite
- Part IV. Population, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
- 12. Rural Population Growth, Agricultural Change, and Natural
- Resource Management in Developing Countries: A Review of
- Hypotheses and some Evidence from Honduras
- John Pender
- Part V. Some Economics of Population Policy
- 13. Why Micro Matters
- Jere R. Behrman
- 14. New Findings in Economics and Demography: Implications for
- Policies to Reduce Poverty
- Nancy Birdsall
- Index