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Author:   Nancy Birdsall (President, President, Center for Global Development) ,  Allen C. Kelley (, Duke University) ,  Steven Sinding (Director-General, Director-General, International Planned Parenthood Federation)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780199244072

ISBN 10:   0199244073
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   30 August 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Setting the Stage 1: Nancy Birdsall and Steven W. Sinding: How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues 2: Allen C. Kelley: The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised 3: John Bongaarts: Dependency Burdens in the Developing World II. Population Change and the Economy 4: Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt: Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models, Findings, and Perspectives 5: Jeffrey G. Williamson: Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Inequality 6: Ronald D. Lee, Andrew Mason, and Tim Miller: Saving, Wealth, and Population 7: David Bloom and David Canning: Cumulative Causality, Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition III. Fertility, Poverty and the Family 8: Tom Merrick: Population and Poverty in Households: A Review of Reviews 9: Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton: Demographic Transition and Poverty: Effects Via Economic Growth, Distribution, and Conversion 10: Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Székely: Inequality and the Family in Latin America 11: Ricardo Paes de Barros, Sergio Firpo, Roberta Guedes Barreto, and Phillippe George Pereira Leite: Demographic Changes and Poverty in Brazil IV. Population, Agriculture and Natural Resources 12: John Pender: 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: Jere R. Behrman: Why Micro Matters 14: Nancy Birdsall: New Findings in Economics and Demography: Implications for Policies to Reduce Poverty

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Provides a very valuable discussion, with detailed references, of the knotty methodological issues inherent in the demography-development debate... Anyone concerned with how population change affects the development prospects of poor countries will profit from reading these essays. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

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Nancy Birdsall is President of the Center for Global Development and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she directs the economic reform project. She was the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank from 1993 until September 1998. She is the author of numerous publications on economic development issues. Her most recent work is on the causes and effects of inequality in a globalizing world. Allen C. Kelley is James B. Duke Professor of Economics, Duke University. Steven W. Sinding is Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, headquartered in London. He directs a global federation of 147 affiliates operating programmes in 180 countries, and six regional offices around the world. Prior to joing IPPF, Dr Sinding was Professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy in Columbia's School for International and Public Affairs.

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