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- W57701605 abstract "This work argues that the concept of standard of living is the most appropriate focus for analysis of the complex interrleation between demographic variables and social and economic change. The traditional focus has too insistently stressed fertility control as the mechanism to resolve problems of economic development; it identifies economic development with economic growth and considers social investments competitive with productive investments. The conclusion is that population growth must be curbed in order to reduce the demand for social investment. Section 1 of this paper reveiws population growth and age structure in Central America and provides a critique of the traditional focus on population and development. Section 2 examines the age structure of the population stratified by income levels in Guatemala Honduras and Costa Rica. The data show that fertility has declined for some population groups but remained high for others. Dependency ratios family size and growth rates for different cohorts differ according to per capita family income. The percentage of children is inversely proportional to total per capita family income not only because of the large size of these households but more importantly because of their low productivity and scarse employment opportunities. To promote changes in patterns of family reproduction it will be necessary to understand the factors determining the behavior of households in different socioeconomic strata and to influence both the variables causing poverty and those resulting from poverty. 3 elements are fundamental to this focus: the standard of living as a category for classification of the population 2) the family as a unit of analysis and 3) the interrelations between the demographic variables and the development variables as the mechanism for transmitting inequality toward the future through the labor market. This focus is more useful than the traditional focus for analyzing population phenomena and it corresponds to the concept of household survival strategies familiar in the Latin American literature. The 3rd section examines 5 indicators useful in analyzing the mechanism of intergenerational transfer of poverty in Central America. The 5 indicators are nutrition school attendance age-specific labor force participation rates the proportion of workers in the informal sector and the percentage of perosns in each age group who are heads of households. The final section seeks to identify population and development policies that can succeed in breading the vicious cycle of intergenerational transfer of poverty illustrated for Central America and thus in modifying patterns of reproduction and population growth." @default.
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- W57701605 title "Population and development in the Central American isthmus" @default.
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