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POPULATION


  I.  Basics
    Pop.= Fertility - Mortality
  			 F = # of births
	   M = # of deaths
          2 major growth periods:
    		 Agricultural revolution
    		 Industrial revolution

II. Demographic transition theory
	 High birth & death rates	>>
      low rates thru modernization

III. Pop. as a "security" issue
	 A. Cold War: revolution
	 B. Post-Cold War: immigration

IV. How to lower birth rates?
	  A. Birth control technology
	       Problems in DCs:
		 Sterilization
		 Poverty
		 Statist agendas
		 Abortion issue
	  B.  Raise cost of children
	         --China
	  C. Women's reproductive  literacy & economic devt.

V. Is the demographic transition in sight?

VI. International Conference on  Population & Devt. (Cairo '94)