Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang von Bevölkerungswachstum und Umweltproblemen. Anhand philosophisch-historischer sowie empirisch-deskriptiver Untersuchungen und der umfassenden Analyse positiver und normativer ökonomischer Theorien wird die Komplexität der Wechselwirkungen...

These two addresses to the National Leaders' Seminar on Population and Development in Nairobi and to the International Population Conference in Mexico City in 1984 concern the urgent and important problem of fast population growth. Rapid population growth slows development, with the poor being...

In this book, a model of long-term interrelationships between income distribution, population growth and economic development is developed and estimated from data for 54 countries. The results indicate that a reduction of income inequality leads to lower fertility and mortality, to improvedbasic...

This book evaluates the evidence on the impacts of population growth on well-being in developing countries and concludes that slowing population growth from high current levels, especially in poor, agrarian societies facing pressure on land and resources, is advantageous to economic development,...