Population Economicsis a thoroughly modern treatment of population economics as a field in public economics.

The analyses in this book indicate when family planning is likely to diffuse and lead to rapid adoption of birth control, and they derive conditions where Pareto-improving policy measures are likely to exist.

These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s, including information from general economics journals, ...

A head-in-the-sand mentality that denies problems2. Emotional investment in the wrong issues3. Unhealthy responses to ministry frustrations4. A Lone Ranger attitude that says "God and I can handle this"5.

Argues that healthy, educated people are the world's most important resource and that the world's poor have not been adequately helped by foreign aid because of the misunderstandings of donor governments

"An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."—William J ...

Challenges the assumption that unchecked human population growth will lead to social and economic disaster.