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With refernce to Tamil Nadu, India.
Author : Mahadevan Sumangala
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
With refernce to Tamil Nadu, India.
Author : David Bloom
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0833033735
There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and synthesizes current research on the topic. The authors, led by Harvard economist David Bloom, conclude that population age structure, more than size or growth per se, affects economic development, and that reducing high fertility can create opportunities for economic growth if the right kinds of educational, health, and labor-market policies are in place. The report also examines specific regions of the world and how their differing policy environments have affected the relationship between population change and economic development.
Author : Keerty Nakray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811961247
This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the last century and the fourth industrial revolution on welfare state transformations in China and India, the world's two largest countries in terms of population and density. First-hand empirical work is conducted by a group of scholars from India and China, which draws on inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural academic traditions to deepen social, cultural and legal understanding between the two countries. This book would appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in comparative sociology, political science, law and comparative welfare studies as well as researchers in these fields, as well as researchers in policy think-tanks and research institutes and officials in government and non-governmental organizations.
Author : Bouba Housseini
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
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Author : Chiu Hung Cheung
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Birth control
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Author : Nancy Birdsall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199244073
The effect of demography on economic performance has been the subject of intense debate in economics for nearly two centuries. In recent years opinion has swung between the Malthusian views of Coale and Hoover, and the cornucopian views of Julian Simon. Unfortunately, until recently, data weretoo weak and analytical models too limited to provide clear insights into the relationship. As a result, economists as a group have not been clear or conclusive.This volume, which is based on a collection of papers that heavily rely on data from the 1980s and 1990s and on new analytical approaches, sheds important new light on demographic--economic relationships, and it provides clearer policy conclusions than any recent work on the subject. In particular,evidence from developing countries throughout the world shows a pattern in recent decades that was not evident earlier: countries with higher rates of population growth have tended to see less economic growth. An analysis of the role of demography in the "Asian economic miracle" strongly suggeststhat changes in age structures resulting from declining fertility create a one-time "demographic gift" or window of opportunity, when the working age population has relatively few dependants, of either young or old age, to support. Countries which recognize and seize on this opportunity can, as theAsian tigers did, realize healthy bursts in economic output. But such results are by no means assured: only for countries with otherwise sound economic policies will the window of opportunity yield such dramatic results. Finally, several of the studies demonstrate the likelihood of a causalrelationship between high fertility and poverty. While the direction of causality is not always clear and very likely is reciprocal (poverty contributes to high fertility and high fertility reinforces poverty), the studies support the view that lower fertility at the country level helps create apath out of poverty for many families.Population Matters represents an important further step in our understanding of the contribution of population change to economic performance. As such, it will be a useful volume for policymakers both in developing countries and in international development agencies.
Author : Tim Dyson
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848139136
The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy. When discussed in relation to the global south and the modern project of development, the questions and answers become more problematic. Population and Development offers an expert guide on the demographic transition, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe through to the rest of the world. Tim Dyson examines how, while the phenomenon continues to cause unsustainable population growth with serious economic and environmental implications, its processes have underlain previous periods of sustained economic growth, helped to liberate women from the domestic domain, and contributed greatly to the rise of modern democracy. This accessible yet scholarly analysis will enable any student or expert in development studies to understand complex and vital demographic theory.
Author : Manuel Riesco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230625258
The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social policy relies for its implementation mainly on proactive, emerging regional entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. This volume illustrates where innovative development strategy may be in the making.
Author : Yves Bizien
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Monograph on the economics of population in economic growth - includes econometric models, population dynamics and growth theories relevant to developing countries, effects of welfare policies, rural migration, technological change and production diversification, cost benefit analysis of birth control, household equilibrium fertility model, includes case studies of India and Italy and a literature survey. Select bibliography pp. 169 to 186, graphs diagrams, references and statistical tables.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309076102
This volume is part of an effort to review what is known about the determinants of fertility transition in developing countries and to identify lessons that might lead to policies aimed at lowering fertility. It addresses the roles of diffusion processes, ideational change, social networks, and mass communications in changing behavior and values, especially as related to childbearing. A new body of empirical research is currently emerging from studies of social networks in Asia (Thailand, Taiwan, Korea), Latin America (Costa Rica), and Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Ghana). Given the potential significance of social interactions to the design of effective family planning programs in high-fertility settings, efforts to synthesize this emerging body of literature are clearly important.