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Description

Though the world's population continues to grow, total fertility rates are dropping below replacement level in many parts of the world. The Baby Bust, a landmark book of essays by demographic, economic, and political science experts, examines the global 'birth dearth' and its causes, implications, and policy options. Focusing in large part on the United States, this book also includes data from Europe and Japan and makes important comparisons between the three regions. It concludes with suggestions for making America's future sound and prosperous, through the regularization and legalization of appropriate levels of immigration; enhancing governmental efforts to increase productivity; and finally, ending the present waste of so many underutilized members of the workforce, particularly minorities and the poor.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 I The Global Baby Bust
Chapter 4 Japan's Baby Bust: Causes, Implications, and Policy Responses
Chapter 5 Low Fertility in Europe: Causes, Implications, and Policy Options
Part 6 II The United States and the Baby Bust
Chapter 7 The U.S. Baby Bust in Historical Perspective
Chapter 8 Combating Child Poverty and Enhancing the Soundness of Social Security
Chapter 9 Latino Immigrants, National Identity, and the National Interest
Chapter 10 Ending America's Waste of Its Most Precious Resource-Its People

Product details

Published Jan 06 2006
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9780742538559
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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