A classic work, which presents the case for
population growth rather than the impact of new
technologies being the primary mechanism of agrarian
development within traditional communities.
Brings together 25 of developmental economist
Boserup's shorter works that explore the connections
between economic growth and demographic
trends--especially trends relating to the status of
women and the changing family. Topics include the
interplay of agriculture and population, constraints
on food supply and agricultural productivity, and
the economic activities of women and the
environmental determinants of desired fertility in
low income countries.
Woman's Role in Economic Development
Pioneering, fully documented study of women in
the process of economic and social growth,
whether in employment, land rights,
industrialization or marriage, throughout the
Third World.
In the present booklet, the author reviews seventy
years of work and writing on development economics
and its relation to her own experience, from
government planner in Denmark during the Second
World War, via the UN, to consultant concerning
today's problems of the Third World.
