Population Matters
Subtitle: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World
Contributors: Nancy Birdsall (Editor); Allen C. Kelley (Editor); Steven Sinding (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 4, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780199244072
First sentence: No social phenomenon has attracted more attention in the last half-century than the 'population explosion'-that surge of population numbers rising almost threefold from 2.5 billion in 1950 to over 6 billion at the turn of the millennium, and continuing at a diminishing pace to level out at as much as 11 billion in the middle of the twenty-second century.