that, in high fertility settings, fertility decline facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. It also reduces the …The literature is reviewed on the relationships between population, poverty, and climate change. While developed … most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s …. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth … rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect. The net impact of differential natural population growth …

that, in high fertility settings, fertility decline facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. It also reduces the …The literature is reviewed on the relationships between population, poverty, and climate change. While developed … most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate …

The debate on the environment-poverty nexus is inconclusive, with past research unable to identify the causal dynamics …. This paper uses a unique global panel data set that links (survey and census derived) poverty data to measures of … and soil fertility as proxy for below-ground environmental quality. Rainfall is used to account for endogeneity issues in …

reproductive health and poverty reduction is needed. This paper reviews the evidence base on three reproductive health outcomes …: early childbearing, maternal survival, and unintended pregnancy. Building on the "capacities" approach to poverty assessment … on poverty is that studies have relied on survey data for a single point in time. Longitudinal surveys offer greater …