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Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World

By Nancy Birdsall , Allen C. Kelley , Steven Sinding

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0199244073, 9780199244072, 9780191529535
Open Library ID
OL17029520M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26437521 bytes)
Pages
456\457
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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