Studies in population and economic development (Vol.2)

Population problem has many ramifications. It belongs to that borderland of enquiry which opens on anthropology, geography, sociology and economics. Thus population problem is not a single problem but has, essentially, many dimensions and facets.

This outstanding book, divided in two volumes, provides the most outstanding studies made by the great thinkers on population and economic development. The articles are important, original and thought-provoking.

Volume 1 includes: History of Population Theories: Socio-Economic Fertility Theories and Population Policy; Household and Economy-New Theory of Population and Economic Growth; Children as By-Products, Investment Goods and Consumer Goods; Population as a factor in Economic Development; Population Growth and Economic Development; Population Growth and Living Standards; Economic Aspects of Slowing Population Growth; Birth Rate and Economic Development; Population Growth and Rate of Investment, Demand for Capital; Employment Implications of Industrialisation: Full Employment; Employment-Output Trade Off in LDCs.

Volume 2 includes: Unemployment in India; Labour Use Efficiency in Indian Agriculture; Technology vs. Technique; Population Growth and Land Use Pattern; Investment in Human Capital; Lewis Model-An Appraisal; Labour Migration and Urban Employment; Cost Benefit Model of Rural to Urban Migration; International Flow of Human Capital; China's Brain Drain into the United States; Brain Migration and Policy Implications; Brain Migration from Third World; Economic Approaches to Education and Manpower Planning; Human Resources Development Planning; Manpower Planning and Manpower Forecasting; Employment Policy; Means to Control Population Growth; National Population Policy in Relation to National Planning in India.
This important book will be of great use to scholars and students of economics and commerce, sociology, geography and anthropology, and also to planners and policy-makers.