GGR208 Lecture 07

GGR208 Lecture March 9 026.pdf

• Economic Development and Population Change
• We want to look at the changes between Economic Development and population change.
• Alleviate poverty is through Economic Development and population change.
• Development is the 'best contraceptive'
  • Improve: living standards, Life Expectancy
  • Reduce: Infant Mortality Rate
  • Change labour and education requirements
  • With economic development it changes unit of family from multiple to more individual.
  • Means smaller families.
• Demographic Transition Model
  • Critical mass population
    • You need a certain size of population to have this economic development.
  • Economic change
  • Socio cultural change
  • Change in population dynamics
• Modernization theory
• Economic Development