Population control policy -- Problems of assumptions -- Population control policy and working poor behavior -- an analysis of incompatibility -- Irrational fertility behavior hypothesis -- an empirical examination, 1998-2000 data -- Irrational fertility behavior hypothesis -- further examination, 2001-2005 data -- Child participation, nature of work, and fertility demand -- a theoretical analysis -- The observed landholding-fertility relationship -- is it monotonic? -- Poverty and fertility -- evidence and policy implications, 1998-2000 data -- Poverty and fertility -- further evidence, 2001-2005 data -- Poverty eradication policies -- Concluding remarks.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 choices of the poor are not the concern of the individual family. This means that the fertility choices of the poor are not a result of ignorance.
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Title
Poverty reduction--an effective means of population control.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Birth control-- Developing countries.
Poverty-- Developing countries.
Pauvreté-- Pays en voie de développement.
Régulation des naissances-- Pays en voie de développement.
Armut
Bekämpfung
Bevölkerungspolitik
Birth control.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.
Economic policy.
Geburtenregelung
Population policy.
Poverty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Developing countries, Economic policy.
Developing countries, Population policy.
Pays en voie de développement, Politique démographique.
Pays en voie de développement, Politique économique.