This book examines the history behind the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more developed, the less developed, and the
The general assumption throughout history has been that a growing population is beneficial for societies. By the mid-1960s, however, the United States and other
This absorbing study explains why population control is no longer the focus of global population policy and why reproductive rights and health have become the m
Concern about the size of the world’s population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and
Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Cent