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Population Growth and Poverty in the Developing World

出版	Population Reference Bureau, Incorporated, 1980
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hIq3AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This Bulletin examines the links between rapid population growth and the absolute poverty which currently afflicts 780 million people in the developing world (excluding China and other centrally planned economies), defined as having less than the income necessary to ensure a daily diet of 2,150 calories per person ($200 per person a year in 1970 U.S. dollars). Rapid population growth stretches national and family budgets thin with the increasing numbers of children to be fed and educated and workers to be provided with jobs. The probable consequence is slower per capita income growth, lack of progress in reducing income inequality, and more poverty. Conversely, many characteristics of poverty can cause high fertility (the main component of rapid population growth)--high infant mortality, lack of education for women in particular, too little family incomes to "invest" in children, inequitale shares in national income, and inaccessibility of family planning.