Includes bibliographical references and index.

How and why population matters : new findings, new issues / Nancy Birdsall and Steven W. Sinding -- The population debate in historical perspective : revisionism revised / Allen C. Kelley -- Dependency burdens in the developing world / John Bongaarts -- Economic and demographic change : a synthesis of models, findings, and perspectives / Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt -- Demographic change, economic growth, and inequality / Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Saving, wealth, and population / Ronald D. Lee, Andrew Mason, and Tim Miller -- Cumulative causality, economic growth, and the demographic transition / David Bloom and David Canning -- Population and poverty in households : a review of reviews / Thomas Merrick -- Demographic transition and poverty : effects via economic growth, distribution, and conversion / Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton -- Inequality and the family in Latin America / Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Szekely -- Demographic changes and poverty in Brazil / Ricardo Paes de Barros ... [et al.] -- Rural population growth, agricultural change, and natural resource management in developing countries : a review of hypotheses and some evidence from Honduras / John Pender -- Why micro matters / Jere R. Behrman -- New findings in economics and demography : implications for policies to reduce poverty / Nancy Birdsall.

English.