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Subject(s)

• Agriculture—Developing countries [Browse]
• Economic development [Browse]
• Neo-Malthusianism [Browse]
• Developing countries—Population [Browse]
• Developing countries—Economic conditions [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in development economics ; 23. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in development economics ; 23 [More in this series]

Summary note

In 1950 the world population was 2.5 billion; fifty years later there are over 6 billion people. The demographic of this explosion has essentially occurred in the developing areas of the world. The key to understanding many contemporary development problems that have arisen from this rapid growth is in understanding the relationships between population and the economy.This book offers an analysis of such relationships, encompassing a review of the major positions in the academic debate.Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries will serve as a usef

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I Population growth and economic development; 2 Population pessimism; Malthus's theory of population; 'Malthusian' years: the 1960s and 1970s; The population implications of the neoclassical growth model; 3 'Revisionism': Theoretical background; 'Revisionism'; New institutional economics; Population and the environment: local commons; Population and savings; Population in recent neoclassical growth theory
• PART II Population growth and agriculture in less developed countries4 Endogenous technical progress in agriculture; Trends; The Boserup model; The induced innovation model; Food entitlements and the green revolution; 5 The response of institutions; Institutional responses and the success of the green revolution; Property rights on land; 6 Adjustment failures; Cases of failure; Research; Property rights; Poverty; 7 Environmental implications; Land degradation and the Boserup model; Toposequences of land use and land degradation
• World-wide evidence from the Global Assessment of Soil Degradation (GLASOD) projectAppendix; 8 Future challenges for world agriculture; The new research challenges; Biotechnology; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 0-203-10310-6
• 1-134-63130-8
• 1-280-32907-6

OCLC

475877950

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