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Population matters : demographic change, economic growth, and poverty in the developing world
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ISBN: 0199261865 0199244073 9786610904976 0191529532 1280904976 9780199261864 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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The effect of demography on economic performance has been the subject of intense debate in economics for nearly two centuries. In recent years opinion has swung between the Malthusian views of Coale and Hoover, and the cornucopian views of Julian Simon. Unfortunately, until recently, data were too weak and analytical models too limited to provide clear insights into the relationship. As a result, economists as a group have not been clear or conclusive.This volume, which is based on a collection of papers that heavily rely on data from the 1980s and 1990s and on new analytical approaches, sheds

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