ISBN:
9780878341283
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 360 S
,
graph. Darst
Series Statement:
Population and development review 38, supplement (2012)
Series Statement:
Population and development review
DDC:
363.9
Keywords:
Demographic transition
;
Population policy
;
Technological innovations Environmental aspects
Description / Table of Contents:
Intergenerational relationsIntergenerational transfers, the biological life cycle, and human society / Donald Lee -- The intergenerational welfare state / Nancy Folbre, Douglas Wolf -- Low fertlity and population aging -- Why demographic suicide? : the puzzles of European fertility / Lant Pritchett, Martina Viarengo -- Low fertility in historical perspective / Massimo Livi Bacci -- A demographic perspective on Japan's "lost decades" / Reiko Aoki -- Fertility transition outcomes -- On demographic and democratic transitions / Tim Dyson -- Population change among the elderly : international patterns / Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston -- Ruminations on post-transition demography / Geoffrey McNicoll -- Policy and program : China -- Population, policy, and politics : how will history judge China's one-child policy? / Wang Feng, Yong Cai, Baochang Gu -- Patriarchal demographics : China's sex ratio reconsidered / Susan Greenhalgh -- Policy and program : Africa -- Fertility transition : is sub-Saharan Africa different? / John Bongaarts -- The recent fertility decline in Rwanda / Charles F. Westoff -- Fertility and population policy in Algeria : discrepancies between planning and outcomes / Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi, Jacques Vallin -- Working misunderstandings : donors, brokers, and villagers in Africa's AIDS industry / Susan Cotts Watkins, Ann Swidler -- Environment, technology, and wealth -- Peak farmland and the prospect for land sparing / Jesse H. Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick, Paul E. Waggoner -- National wealth / Partha Dasgupta -- The last eighty years : continuities and change / Vaclav Smil -- Population theory and measurement -- Demographic metabolism : a predictive theory of socioeconomic change / Wolfgang Lutz -- Cross-sections are history / Richard A. Easterlin -- The French school of demography : contextualizing demographic analysis / Veronique Petit, Yves Charbit -- The twilight of the census / David Coleman -- Authors.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Intergenerational relations ; Intergenerational transfers, the biological life cycle, and human society
,
The intergenerational welfare state
,
Low fertlity and population aging ; Why demographic suicide? : the puzzles of European fertility
,
Low fertility in historical perspective
,
A demographic perspective on Japan's "lost decades"
,
Fertility transition outcomes ; On demographic and democratic transitions
,
Population change among the elderly : international patterns
,
Ruminations on post-transition demography
,
Policy and program : China ; Population, policy, and politics : how will history judge China's one-child policy?
,
Patriarchal demographics : China's sex ratio reconsidered
,
Policy and program : Africa ; Fertility transition : is sub-Saharan Africa different?
,
The recent fertility decline in Rwanda
,
Fertility and population policy in Algeria : discrepancies between planning and outcomes
,
Working misunderstandings : donors, brokers, and villagers in Africa's AIDS industry
,
Environment, technology, and wealth ; Peak farmland and the prospect for land sparing
,
National wealth
,
The last eighty years : continuities and change
,
Population theory and measurement ; Demographic metabolism : a predictive theory of socioeconomic change
,
Cross-sections are history
,
The French school of demography : contextualizing demographic analysis
,
The twilight of the census
,
Authors.
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