An overview of the sterilization campaigns during 1970s Emergency India.
An overview of the sterilization campaigns during 1970s Emergency India.
Central planning and foreign aid, the most popular tools of development economics in the 1950s to 1970s, only perpetuate poverty. Like Hayek and Easterly, Bauer emphasized individual liberty as the key to economic growth.
Citizens of relatively more affluent countries have a moral obligation to help those in poverty.
Economic anthropology of the Gouro ethnic group in Cote d'Ivoire.
A theoretical model is presented in which parents face a trade-off between quantity and "quality" (as proxied by investment) children.
The wage rate will equal the marginal product of labor in both scenarios of traditional, "open" unemployment and "disguised" unemployment. Disguised unemployment is described as the situation, often found in developing country agricultural sectors, where, although the entire labor force is employed, the supply of labor hours exceeds the demand for hours).
Essays on class and poverty in wartime UK.
An early economics and political economy textbook.
Outlines the limitations to agricultural production - which grows at a linear rate - in sustaining the population - which grows at an exponential rate. Malthus demonstrated that, given fixed resources, increasing population necessarily increases poverty.
From the abstract: "The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of further fertility decline in Bangladesh, with special attention to the role that might be played by further improvements in women