Focuses on fertility and family transitions in selected Third World countries, exploring critical aspects of the relationship between population and development

China's one-child population policy, first initiated in 1979, has had an enormous effect on the country’s development. By reducing its fertility in the past t

This report summarizes presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Social Processes Underlying Fertility Change in Developing Countries, organized by t

Demographic changes, immigration, economic upheavals, and changing societal mores are creating new and altered structures, processes, and relationships in Ameri

There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and