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Summary
Summary
This book contends that high fertility is rational in that it achieves short term economic benefit and long term old age-support for families. Wider macroeconomic effects are not the concern of the individual family. This means that the fertility choices of the poor are not a result of ignorance. The objective of this book is to drive home the fact that it is poverty that is responsible for high fertility and that until the problem of poverty is effectively dealt with the problem of high fertility will continue to persist. The book concludes with a series of policy recommendations for the eradication of poverty.
Author Notes
Mohammed Sharif is Professor of Economics at the University of Rhode Island, USA. He specializes in Development Economics with special focus on poverty, subsistence, inequity, and fertility in developing countries. He has published in a wide range of journals including Kyklos and Cambridge Journal of Economics and has presented results of his research in the World Congress of the Econometric Society and the Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association. His book on Work Behavior of the World's Poor - Theory, Evidence, and Policy, also published by Ashgate, has received a laudatory review by the Journal of Economic Literature.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Population control policy-problems of assumptions |
| Population control policy and working poor behaviour - an analysis of incompatibility |
| Irrational Fertility Behaviour Hypothesis - An Empirical Examination, 1998-2000 Data |
| Irrational Fertility Behaviour Hypothesis - Further Evidence, 2001-05 Data |
| Child Participation, Nature of Work, and Fertility Demand - A Theoretical Analysis |
| The Observed Landholding-Fertility Relationship - Is It Monotonic? |
| Poverty and Fertility - Evidence and Policy Implications, 1998-2000 Data |
| Poverty and Fertility - Further Evidence, 2001-05 Data |
| Poverty eradication policies |
| Concluding remarks |
| Index |
