According to the authors, population growth and economic development is a centuries-old theme that regained prominence in the 1960s. They take another look at this old issue in the context of recent developments and with the benefit of the increasing stock of knowledge on the subject. After...

Following an earlier paper titled "Population and Poverty: The Real Score" (UPSE Discussion Paper 0415, December 2004), the present paper was first issued in August 2008 as a contribution to the public debate on the population issue that never seemed to die in this country. The debate heated up...

The population issue - now passé elsewhere in the developing world, even in the poorer countries - remains a durable puzzle in the Philippines. On the one hand, a majority of Filipinos regard rapid population growth as an impediment to socioeconomic development, requiring policy intervention;...