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Duke Economics Working Paper #98-13

The Impacts of Rapid Population Growth on Poverty, Food Production, and the Environment


Allen C. Kelley

Abstract

This survey paper updates what is known about the linkages between demographic change (changes in age distributions, the size and the growth rate of population, and migration) and the capacity of countries to provide food, to reduce poverty, and to maintain their environment. This assessment applies a longer-run perspective, and considers political a well as economic changes and impacts.

Key Words: poverty, food, environment, population growth

JEL: O13, O15, Q1, Q3

Prepared for World Population Monitoring 1999, United Nations, 2000.

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