Rural development and population : institutions and policy / edited by Geoffrey McNicoll, Mead Cain ; based on the Expert Consultation on Population and Agricultural and Rural Development convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome.

Contributor(s): McNicoll, Geoffrey | Cain, Mead | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Expert Consultation on Population and Agricultural and Rural Development (1987)Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : New York : Population Council ; Oxford University Press, 1990. Description: vii, 366 p. ; 26 cmISBN: 0195068475 (clothbound); 0195068491 (paperback); 0195068491 (pbk.); 9780195068498Subject(s): Rural development -- Developing countries -- Congresses | Rural population -- Developing countries -- Congresses | Developing countries -- Rural conditions -- Congresses | Developing countries -- Social conditions -- CongressesDDC classification: 307.1412091724 LOC classification: HN981.C6 | R86 1990Online resources: Publisher description | WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Institutional effects on rural economic and demographic change / Geoffrey McNicoll, Mead Cain -- Population, the status of women, and rural development / Ester Boserup -- Cooperation, inequality, and the family / Amartya Sen -- Land reform and family entrepreneurship in East Asia / Susan Greenhalgh -- Futures of the family in rural Africa / Jack Goody -- Social organization and ecological stability under demographic stress / Geoffrey McNicoll -- Demographic responses to food shortages in the Sahel / Allan G. Hill -- Local governance and economic-demographic transition in rural Africa / Goran Hyden -- Responses to rural population growth : Malthus and the moderns / Michael Lipton -- Institutional and environmental constraints to agricultural intensification / Prabhu L. Pingali. Depletion of common property resources in India : micro-level evidence / N.S. Jodha -- Population growth and rural labor absorption in eastern and southern Africa / Ian Livingstone -- Agrarian change and class conflict in Gujarat, India / Jan Breman -- Agrarian responses to outmigration in sub-Saharan Africa / Akin L. Mabogunje -- Rural development, population growth, and the international system / Paul Demeny.

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"Population and development review, a supplement to volume 15, 1989."
Online version:
Rural development and population.
New York : Population Council ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990
(OCoLC)654207636

Includes bibliographical references.

TOC Institutional effects on rural economic and demographic change / Geoffrey McNicoll, Mead Cain --
Population, the status of women, and rural development / Ester Boserup --
Cooperation, inequality, and the family / Amartya Sen --
Land reform and family entrepreneurship in East Asia / Susan Greenhalgh --
Futures of the family in rural Africa / Jack Goody --
Social organization and ecological stability under demographic stress / Geoffrey McNicoll --
Demographic responses to food shortages in the Sahel / Allan G. Hill --
Local governance and economic-demographic transition in rural Africa / Goran Hyden --
Responses to rural population growth : Malthus and the moderns / Michael Lipton --
Institutional and environmental constraints to agricultural intensification / Prabhu L. Pingali. Depletion of common property resources in India : micro-level evidence / N.S. Jodha --
Population growth and rural labor absorption in eastern and southern Africa / Ian Livingstone --
Agrarian change and class conflict in Gujarat, India / Jan Breman --
Agrarian responses to outmigration in sub-Saharan Africa / Akin L. Mabogunje --
Rural development, population growth, and the international system / Paul Demeny.

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