Poverty Reduction - An Effective Means of Population Control

Theory, Evidence and Policy
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4728-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

This book contends that high fertility is rational in that it achieves short term economic benefit and long term old age-support for families. Wider macroeconomic effects are not the concern of the individual family. This means that the fertility choices of the poor are not a result of ignorance. The objective of this book is to drive home the fact that it is poverty that is responsible for high fertility and that until the problem of poverty is effectively dealt with the problem of high fertility will continue to persist. The book concludes with a series of policy recommendations for the eradication of poverty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharif, Mohammed

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Population Control Policy – Problems of Assumptions; Chapter 2 Population Control Policy and Working Poor Behavior - An Analysis of Incompatibility; Chapter 3 Irrational Fertility Behavior Hypothesis – An Empirical Examination, 1998–2000 Data; Chapter 4 Irrational Fertility Behavior Hypothesis – Further Examination, 2001–2005 Data; Chapter 5 Child Participation, Nature of Work, and Fertility Demand Demand - A Theoretical Analysis; Chapter 6 The Observed Landholding-Fertility Relationship - Is it Monotonic?; Chapter 7 Poverty and Fertility – Evidence and Policy Implications, 1998–2000 Data; Chapter 8 Poverty and Fertility – Further Evidence, 2001–2005 Data; Chapter 9 Poverty Eradication Policies; Chapter 10 Concluding Remarks;

Über Autor(innen)

Mohammed Sharif is Professor of Economics at the University of Rhode Island, USA. He specializes in Development Economics with special focus on poverty, subsistence, inequity, and fertility in developing countries. He has published in a wide range of journals including Kyklos and Cambridge Journal of Economics and has presented results of his research in the World Congress of the Econometric Society and the Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association. His book on Work Behavior of the World's Poor - Theory, Evidence, and Policy, also published by Ashgate, has received a laudatory review by the Journal of Economic Literature.