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

Abstract

I. SETTING THE STAGE 1. How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues 2. The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised 3. Dependency Burdens in the Developing World II. POPULATION CHANGE AND THE ECONOMY 4. Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models, Findings, and Perspectives 5. Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Inequality 6. Saving, Wealth, and Population 7. Cumulative Causality, Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition III. FERTILITY, POVERTY AND THE FAMILY 8. Population and Poverty in Households: A Review of Reviews 9. Demographic Transition and Poverty: Effects Via Economic Growth, Distribution, and Conversion 10. Inequality and the Family in Latin America 11. Demographic Changes and Poverty in Brazil 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 V. SOME ECONOMICS OF POPULATION POLICY 13. Why Micro Matters 14. New Findings in Economics and Demography: Implications for Policies to Reduce Poverty