TY - BOOK AU - Birdsall,Nancy AU - Kelley,Allen C. AU - Sinding,Steven W. TI - Population matters: demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world SN - 0199244073 AV - HB884 .P575 2001 U1 - 304.6091724 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Poverty KW - Developing countries KW - Demographic transition KW - Population KW - Economic aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; TOC; 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 ... [et al.] -- 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; Sociology N2 - 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, Read more... UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/population-matters-demographic-change-economic-growth-and-poverty-in-the-developing-world/oclc/46785340&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/6066 ER -