ISBN:
9780415065849
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (97 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Introductions to Development
Parallel Title:
Print version Population and Development in the Third World
DDC:
304.6091724
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate, for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers also have long-reaching effects on those left behind. The rapid growth of Third World populations has often incorrectly been identified as the major force preventing more rapid economic development. Population pressure has been known to generate technological breakthroughs. Their final chapter exami
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Population and Development in the Third World; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; The principal themes; 1. Population growth; Population growth and standards of living; National population structures; Spatial dimensions of population growth; Key ideas; 2. Mortality and fertility levels in the Third World; Measuring mortality and fertility; Mortality patterns and life expectancy; Fertility patterns in the Third World; Case study A: Patterns and determinants of Moroccan fertility; Key ideas; 3. Limited demographic transition; Notestein's theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Limitations of demographic transition theoryFertility transition in the Third World?; Case study B: Islamic populations in transition; Key ideas; 4. Population and food resources; Limits to growth?; Case study C: India: feeding the world's second largest nation; Boserup's hypothesis; Population growth and the Green Revolution; Key ideas; 5. People making a living; Rural-urban migration in the Third World; The selective impact of migration; Case study D: Tunisians on the move; International labour migration; Key ideas; 6. Development and population planning
Description / Table of Contents:
Social, economic and regional development programmesPopulation policies; An assessment of family-planning policies; Case study E:An evaluation of China's population policies, 1949-85; Key ideas; References, further reading and review questions; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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