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Will population growth delay or

accelerate economic growth?

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OVERVIEW



Paul Demeny, Population and Development: IUSSP Distinguished Lecture on Population and Development, Liege, Belgium, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1994.



George D. Moffett, Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge, Viking, New York, New York, 1994.



National Academy of Sciences, Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1986.



COUNTRY STUDIES



Rober Repetto, The 'Second India' Revisited: Population, Poverty and Environmental Stress Over Two Decades, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., 1994.



Tommy Bengtsson, Population, Economy and Welfare in Sweden, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1994.





CORRELATIONS



Jeff Kling and Lant Prichett, Where in the World is Population Growth Bad?, Policy Research Working Paper 1391, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 1994.



Lant Pritchett, "Population, Factor Accumulation and Productivity", mimeo, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1994.



William Winfrey, 1992, "Population Growth and Economic Development: What are the Statistical Analyses Trying to Tell Us About the Period Since 1950?", mimeo, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1994.



POVERTY



Nancy Birdsall and Charles Griffin, Population Growth, Externalities and Poverty, Policy Research Working Paper: Population, Health and Nutrition, No. WPS 1158, July 1993, World bank, Washington, D.C.1993.





EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES



International Labor Organization, Employment and Population: An Inseparable Duo, Geneva, Switzerland, 1994.



ECONOMIC-DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS



MacKellar, F. Landis, "TM2: A Neo-classical Model of Population, Human Resource Quality and Economic Growth", ILO Working Papers in Population, Human Resources and Development Planning, 1994.



Oded Galor and David N. Weil, "The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth", PSTC Working Paper Series, No. 93-12, November 1993, Brown University Population Studies and Training Center [PSTC] Providence, Rhode Island, November, 1993.



Martin Weale, Education, Externalities, Fertility and Economic Growth, Policy Research Working Paper: Population, Health and Nutrition, No. WPS 1039, November 1992, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1992.



Raut, L. and T. N. Srinivasan, "Endogenous Fertility, Technical Change and Growth in a Model of Overlapping Generations", Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 628, 1991.



Charles van Marrewijk and Jos Verbeek, Endogenous Population Growth: A Problem for Development, Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper, No. 9109/G Erasmus University, Institute for Economic Research, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May, 1991.



Charles van Marrewijk, Endogenous Population Growth and the Economy, Institute of Economic Research Memorandum No. 363, March 1990. University of Gronigen, Faculty of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Gronigen, Netherlands, 1990.






Conference Volumes:



Robert Cassen, (editor), Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions, Transactions Press, Oxford, 1994.



Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994.



Rohlf Ohlsson (editor), Population Development and Welfare: The Nobel Jubilee in Economics. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1993.



Naohiro Ogawa, Gavin Jones and Jeffrey G. Williamson, (editors), Human Resources in Development Along the Asia-Pacific Rim, Oxford University Press, South-east Asia Publishing Unit, Singapore, 1993.




Articles:



OVERVIEW



Partha Dasgupta, The Population Problem: Theory and Evidence, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 33, No. 4, December 1995, pp. 1879-1902.



MacKellar, F. Landis, "Population and Development: Assessment in Advance of the 1994 World Population Conference", in Development Policy Review, Vol. 12, June 1994, pp. 1-28.



Menken, Jane, "Demographic-Economic Relationships and Development" in Graham- Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994, pp. 59-70.



David Horlacher and Larry Heligman, "Recent Findings on the Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries" in Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries: Proceedings of the UN/INED Expert Group Meeting in New York, 1988, New York, Taylor and Francis, 1991, pp. 345-378.



Julian Simon, "Population Growth is Not Bad for Humanity", National Forum, Vol. 70, Winter 1990, pp. 12-16.



Nancy Birdsall, "Economic Approaches to Population Growth" in Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 1, Hollis Chenery and T. N. Srinivasan (editors), Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1988, pp. 478-540.



Horlacher, David and F. Landis MacKellar, "Population Growth Versus Economic Growth?" in World Population Trends and Their Impact on Economic Development, Dominic Salvatore (editor), New York, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 25-44.



T. N. Srinivasan, "Population Growth and Economic Development", in Journal of Policy Modelling, Vol 10, No. 1, 1988, pp. 7-28.





REVISIONISM VS. ORTHODOXY



Geoffrey McNicoll, "On Population Growth and Revisionism", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, June 1995, pp. 307-340.



Allen C. Kelley and William Paul McGreevey, "Population and Development in Historical Perspective" in Robert Cassen, (editor), Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions, Transactions Press, Oxford, 1994, pp. 107-126.



Allen C. Kelly, "Revisionism Revisited: An Essay on the Population Debate in Historical Perspective" in Rohlf Ohlsson (editor), Population Development and Welfare: The Nobel Jubilee in Economics. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1993.

Karl Zinsmeister, "Supply Side Demography", National Interest, No. 19, Spring 1990, pp. 68-75.



Allen C. Kelley, "The Economic Consequences of Population Change in the Third World", in The Journal of Economic Literature, Volume XXVI, Number 4, December 1988, pp. 1685-1728.



Dennis Hodgson, "Orthodoxy and Revisionism in American Demography", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, December 1988, pp. 541-570.





CORRELLATIONS



Robin Barlow,"Population Growth and Economic Growth: Some Correlations", Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 153-165.



James A. Brander, and Steve Dowrick, "The Role of Fertility and Population in Economic Growth: Empirical Results From Aggregate Cross-National Data", Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 7, February 1994, pp. 1-25.



Didier Blanchet, "On Interpreting Observed Relationships Between Population Growth and Economic Growth: A Graphical Exposition", Population and Development Review, March 1991, Vol. 17, No. 21, pp. 105-114.



Didier Blanchet, "Estimating the Relationship Between Population Growth and Aggregate Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Methodological Problems" in Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries: Proceedings of the UN/INED Expert Group Meeting in New York, 1988, New York, Taylor and Francis, 1991, pp. 67-100.





EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES



Ignacy Sachs, "Population, Development and Employment", International Social Science Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, September, 1994, pp. 343-359.



Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Human Capital Deepening, Inequality and Demographic Events Along the Asia-Pacific Rim" in Naohiro Ogawa, Gavin Jones and Jeffrey G. Williamson, (editors), Human Resources in Development Along the Asia-Pacific Rim, Oxford University Press, South-east Asia Publishing Unit, Singapore, 1993.



A.S. Oberai, "Urban Population Growth, Employment and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework for Policy Analysis" in Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries, New York, Taylor and Francis, 1991, pp. 191-218.



John Bauer, "Demographic Change and Asian Labor Markets in the 1990s" in Population and Development Review, Volume 16, Number 4, December 1990, pp. 615-646.



Boyce J., "Population Growth and Real Wages of Agricultural Labourers in Bangladesh" in Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1989, pp. 467-485.



SAVINGS AND CAPITAL FORMATION



Shumaker, Linda D. and Robert L. Clark, "Population Dependency Rates and Savings Rates" in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 40, Number 2, January, 1992, pp.319-32.



Kelley, Allen C., "Population Pressure, Saving, and Investment in the Third World: Some Puzzles" in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 36, Number 3, April 1988, pp.449-64.



Mason, Andrew, "Saving, Economic Growth and Demographic Change" in Population and Development Review, Volume 14, Number 1, March 1988, pp. 113-44.



Mason, Andrew, "Population Growth, Aggregate Saving, and Economic Development"

in World Population Trends and Their Impact on Economic Development, Dominic Salvatore (editor), Greeenwood Press, New York, 1988, pp. 45-57.



Jeffrey S. Hammer, "Children and Savings in Less Developed Countries", Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1, September 1986, pp. 107-118.





TECHNICAL CHANGE



Julian Simon, "Demographic Causes and Consequences of the Industrial Revolution", Journal of European Economic History, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 141-158.



Michael Kremer, "Population Growth and Technical Change: One Million B.C. to 1990", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 108, No. 3, pp. 681-716.





INCOME DISTRIBUTION



C. Peter Timmer, "Population, Poverty and Policies", in American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, May 1994, pp. 261-265.



Dennis A. Ahlburg, "Population Growth and Poverty" in Robert Cassen, (editor), Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions, Transactions Press, Oxford, 1994, pp. 127-147.



Nancy Birdsall, "Government, Population and Poverty" in Robert Cassen, (editor), Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions, Transactions Press, Oxford, 1994, pp. 253-274.



Partha Dasgupta, "The Population Problem" in Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994, pp. 150-180.



Partha Dasgupta, "Population" in An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution, New York, Clarendon Press, 1993, Chapter 12.



Partha Dasgupta, "Population, Resources and Poverty", Ambio, Vol. 21, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 95-101.



Nancy Birdsall and Charles Griffin, "Fertility and Poverty", in Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1988, pp. 29-55.



ECONOMIC WELFARE



Ng, Yew-Kwang, "On the Welfare Economics of Population Control", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, June, 1986, pp. 247-266.





ECONOMIC-DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS



Ping Wang, Chong K. Yip and Carol A Scotese, "Fertility Choice and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence", in Review of Economic Statistics, Vol. 76,No. 2, May 1994, pp. 255-266.



N. S. Blomquist, and H. Wijkander, "Fertility Waves, Aggregate Savings and the Rate of Interest" in Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 7, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 27-48.



Andrew Mason, Yoke-Yun Teh, Naohiro Ogawa and Tahehiro Fukui, "The Intergenerational Distribution of Resources and Income in Japan" in John Ermisch and Naohiro Ogawa, (editors), The Family, the Market and the State in Ageing Societies, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1994.



Nico Heernik, "Population Growth, Income Distribution and Economic Development: Theory, Methodology and Empirical Results" in Population Economics, 1994.



Alexia Prskawetz, Gustav Feichtinger and Franz Wirl, "Endogenous Population Growth and the Exploitation of Renewable Resources", in Mathematical Population Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1994, pp. 87-106.



Roberto S. Mariano, "Complementarity and Conflict among Population and Other Policies: Specifying an Economic Demographic Model for A Developing Country, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 32, No. 4, Part I, Winter 1993, pp. 523-540.



Hendrik P. van Dalen, "International Migration, Economic Policy And Human Capital Accumulation: A Simulation Study" in Economic Modelling, Vol. 10, No. 4, October 1993, pp. 417-429.



Charles van Marrewijk and Jos Verbeek, "On Opulence Driven Poverty Traps", Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1993, pp.67-81.



Aniceto C. Orbeta, "Population Growth, Human Capital Expenditures and Economic Growth: A Macroeconometric Analysis", Philippine Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 29, No. 2, December 1992, pp. 179-230.



Hendrick P. van Dalen, "Economic Policy in a Demographically Divided World", Population Economics, 1992, Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, 1992.



Patricio Arrau, "Endogenous Growth in a Life-Cycle Model: The Role of Population Growth and Taxation" in Journal of Policy Modelling, Vol. 14, No. 2, April 1992, pp. 167-186.



James B. Davies and Ian Wooton, "Income Inequality and International Migration", Economic Journal, Vol. 102, No. 413, July 1992, pp 789-802.



Steinmann, Gunter and J. Komlos, "Population Growth and Economic Development in the Very Long Run: A Simulation Model of Three Revolutions", in Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1988, pp. 44-63.



Dennis Ahlburg, "The Impact of Population Growth on Economic Growth in Developing Nations: The Evidence from Macroeconomic-Demographic Models" in D. Gale Johnson and Ronald D. Lee (editors), Population Growth and Economic Development Issues and Evidence, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison Wisconsin, 1987, pp.479-422.



COUNTRY STUDIES



Shiquing Zhang, "The Effect of Population Growth in China on the Course of Economic Growth", in Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1993, pp. 181-192.