TY - BOOK ID - 1797434 TI - The demographic transition : stages, patterns, and economic implications : a longitudinal study of sixty-seven countries covering the period 1720-1984 AU - Chesnais, Jean-Claude AU - Kreager, Elizabeth PY - 2000 SN - 0198286597 9780198286592 PB - Oxford Clarendon DB - UniCat KW - Demography KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - 314.12 KW - 314.148 KW - Demographic transition KW - -Economic development KW - -Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Transition, Demographic KW - Vital revolution (Demography) KW - Population KW - Vital statistics KW - Bevolkingstheorieen KW - Historische demografie KW - History KW - -Bevolkingstheorieen KW - 314.148 Historische demografie KW - 314.12 Bevolkingstheorieen KW - -314.148 Historische demografie KW - Development, Economic KW - Bevolkingsontwikkeling. KW - Demographic transition. KW - Economic development KW - Economic development. KW - Economische aspecten. KW - History. KW - Demographic transition - History. KW - Economic development - History. KW - #SBIB:004.AANKOOP KW - #SBIB:314H110 KW - Bevolkingsstudies en theorieën: algemeen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1797434 AB - Demographic transition constitutes one of the most fundamental modern historical changes; people live much longer, have fewer children, and experience higher mobility. This book examines the basic mechanisms behind the modernisation of demographic behaviour. The author has marshalled an impressive array of statistical material relating to sixty-seven countries, half of them less developed countries. Most of the tables are time-series, covering many decades and sometimes go back to the nineteenth, and even eighteenth centuries. The whole sweep of western experience is dealt with here impartially. Though technically sophisticated, the book also covers issues of interpretation and analysis. The author puts forward a number of challenging propositions: mortality decrease is shown to necessarily precede fertility and decline, so-called execptions being simply false exceptions. He shows how the decline of fertility is dependent on important and manifold social transformations. The strong connections between international migration and the course of demographic transition are demonstrated, as is the fact that less developed countries are following the same general patterns as MDCs. There is also discussion of why the theory of demographic transition must include the effect of population changes on the economic progress of society. ER -