Population, Poverty, and the Natural Environment

摘要: Abstract This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration local natural-resource base, a subject that has been much neglected by modern demographers development economists. The motivations for procreation communities poorest regions world are analyzed, recent work on relevance gender relationships to such is summarized. Four potentially significant social externalities associated with fertility behavior use base identified. Three shown be pronatalist their effects, while fourth ambiguous, it can either pro-or anti-natalist. It one may even provide an invidious link between decisions base. type externality used develop theory transitions contemporary world. views as disequilibrium phenomena.