Population Matters

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.

• 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

This book is oneof the most important contributions in the past few years to the debate about the macro consequences of population change.