Population matters : demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.