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.
- ISBN10 0191529532
- ISBN13 9780191529535
- Publish Date December 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 457
- Language English