Population, poverty and economic development

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1532, 2009, Pages 3023-3030

  Sinding, Steven W ^a  

^a University of California San Francisco   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Family planning; Millennium development goals; Population; Poverty

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FAMILY PLANNING; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; POLICY APPROACH; POPULATION MODELING; POVERTY;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70350462782     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0145     Document Type: Review

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