Population and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development) - Hardcover

Findlay, Allan M.; Findlay, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138417122 ISBN 13: 9781138417120

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate, for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers also have long-reaching effects on those left behind. The rapid growth of Third World populations has often incorrectly been identified as the major force preventing more rapid economic development. Population pressure has been known to generate technological breakthroughs. Their final chapter examines family planning programmes, and concludes by asking who benefits most from population policies and questioning the right of developed countries to advocate family planning programmes for Third World nations.

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Allan Findlay, Anne Findlay

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138417122
• ISBN 13: 9781138417120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96