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This volume presents the latest thinking concerning the effect of population growth on economic development and the other areas of global concern such as poverty, health, human resource development and the environment. The authors address the complex issues that currently face both developed and developing country governments in the area of population: the relationship between population and economic growth; the relations of family planning and fertility reduction to women's reproductive health and women's rights; population growth consequences, at the family and societal level, for investments in human resource development; the impact of population growth on local ecosystems and the rationale for population assistance programs.

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The UN-sponsored international population conference held recently in Cairo demonstrated again that the population growth versus economic growth debate is often passionate and misinformed. This volume, prepared in anticipation of that conference, is an excellent summary of the current scientific literature on population issues. Contributors are well-known demographers, economists, and sociologists--all of whom take a policy perspective. Three main conclusions arise from their work. First, the negative effects of population growth are confined mainly to the individual and household level. Second, there is little evidence that population growth does much harm (or good) at the macro (economic growth) level. Third, appropriate policies or the lack of such policies are probably more important than efforts to reduce population growth in addressing environmental and resource problems. Appropriately, the authors recognize that these are tentative conclusions that may need to be altered by the time of the next UN population conference scheduled for the year 2004. Yet, this is not a volume that will soon become obsolete. A well-documented, dispassionate, but very readable introduction to the complexity of population issues. Highly recommended for all audiences. J. T. Peach; New Mexico State University