Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions

by Working Group on Population Growth and E, National Research Council, National Research Committee on Population, et al.

This book addresses nine relevant questions: Will population growth reduce the growth rate of per capita income because it reduces the per capita availability of exhaustible resources? How about for renewable resources? Will population growth aggravate degradation of the natural environment? Does more rapid growth reduce worker output and consumption? Do rapid growth and greater density lead to productivity gains through scale economies and thereby...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309036410
• ISBN13: 9780309036412
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.