Demography and Poverty : based on the seminar organized by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the United Nations International child Development Centre (UNICEF) and the University of Florence

IUSSP: International union for the scientific study of population

UNICEF: Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia

SECTION I : GENERAL ISSUES - Introduction / Massimo Livi-Bacci -- Population and poverty : Sudhir Anand, Jonathan Morduch -- SECTION II : POPULATION CHANGE AND POVERTY : LONG TERM ISSUES - Rapid urbanization and the Urban Envirment / David Satterthwaite -- SECTION III : POPULATION CHANGE AND POVERTY : RESOURCES AND ENVIROMENT - The "Second India" revisited : population growth, poverty and environment over two decades / Roberto Repetto -- Population and poverty . how to do they interact? / Michael Lipton -- SECTION IV : DEMOGRAPHIC BEHAVIOUR AND POVERTY : FERTILITY - The social implications of adolescent fertility / Anastasia Gage -- High fertility adn short birth intervals : the poverty consequences of family building patterns / Patricia David - SECTION V DEMOGRAPHIC BAHAVIOUR AND POVERTY - Household structure and poverty : what are the connections? / Cynthia Lloyd -- Family dinamics and urban poverty / Stan D'Souza -- Poverty and AIDS : the vicius circle / Alaka Malwade Basu -- Famine demography and endemic poverty / Siddiq Osmani -- SECTION VII : COPING WITH POVERTY DEMOGRAPHIC OUTCOMES - Coping with poverty : the bilogical impact of nutrition insecurity / Anna Ferro-Luzzi, Franchesco -- The demographic impact of Sudden Impoverishment : easter Europe during the 1989-94 transition / Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Rentato Paniccia -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS - The precarious socio-economic position of woman in rural Africa : the case of the Kaguru of Tanzania / Jeffrey Meeker, Dominique Meekers -- INNOCENTI LECTURE - Mortality as an indicator of Economic success and failure / Amartya Sen