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"Edited by three leading scholars in economic demography (Nancy Birdsall, Allen Kelley, and Steven Sinding), the volume offers an important collection of original essays on the interrelation between demography and economic development...The authors provide excellent coverage of many methodological issues and of recent macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence linking fertility and population dynamics to economic performance. Anyone concerned with how population change affects the development prospects of poor countries will profit from reading the essays." -- Jeffrey D. Sachs, Science
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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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"Edited by three leading scholars in economic demography (Nancy Birdsall, Allen Kelley, and Steven Sinding), the volume offers an important collection of original essays on the interrelation between demography and economic development...The authors provide excellent coverage of many methodological issues and of recent macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence linking fertility and population dynamics to economic performance. Anyone concerned with how population change affects the development prospects of poor countries will profit from reading the essays." -- Jeffrey D. Sachs, Science
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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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No social phenomenon has attracted more attention in the last half-century than the 'population explosion'-that surge of population numbers rising almost threefold from 2.5 billion in 1950 to over 6 billion at the turn of the millennium, and continuing at a diminishing pace to level out at as much as 11 billion in the middle of the twenty-second century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
population revisionism, net birth rate, net death rate, demographic variants, foreign capital dependence, demographic specifications, natural resource conditions, demographic bonus, capita output growth, aggregated size, demographic gift, poverty equation, private marginal benefits, open access land, policy hierarchy, unwanted fertility, welfare per capita, dependency burden, youth dependency ratio, slower population growth, dependency hypothesis, population debate, desired fertility, private marginal costs, poverty incidence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (
No social phenomenon has attracted more attention in the last half-century than the 'population explosion'-that surge of population numbers rising almost threefold from 2.5 billion in 1950 to over 6 billion at the turn of the millennium, and continuing at a diminishing pace to level out at as much as 11 billion in the middle of the twenty-second century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
population revisionism, net birth rate, net death rate, demographic variants, foreign capital dependence, demographic specifications, natural resource conditions, demographic bonus, capita output growth, aggregated size, demographic gift, poverty equation, private marginal benefits, open access land, policy hierarchy, unwanted fertility, welfare per capita, dependency burden, youth dependency ratio, slower population growth, dependency hypothesis, population debate, desired fertility, private marginal costs, poverty incidence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (