Population Growth, Income Distribution, and Economic Development: Theory, Methodology, and Empirical Results

✍ Scribed by Dr. Nico Heerink (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 403
• Series: Population Economics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, a model of long-term interrelationships between income distribution, population growth and economic development is developed and estimated from data for 54 countries. The results indicate that a reduction of income inequality leads to lower fertility and mortality, to improvedbasic needs satisfaction, and to lower labour force participation of young and old males and of females in Asia and Africa. The effect of income distribution on saving and consumption is found to be negligible. These outcomes suggest that family planning and health policies in LDCs will show better results when they are supplemented with policies aimed at makingthe poor benefit from economic growth. As regards development policy, the results indicate that a reduction of income inequality does not impair the formation of physical capital, but enhances the formation of human capital and lowers the growth rate of the labour force.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Inequality measures in macro-analyses....Pages 23-64
Cross-national regression analysis....Pages 65-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Fertility....Pages 111-139
Mortality....Pages 140-160
Age structure of the population....Pages 161-175
Income (in)equality....Pages 176-216
Total income....Pages 217-234
Basic needs fulfilment....Pages 235-251
Labour force participation....Pages 252-279
Consumption and saving....Pages 280-312
Other dependent variables in the model....Pages 313-327
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Model specification and regression results....Pages 331-360
Summary....Pages 361-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-401

✦ Subjects

Population Economics; Economic Theory