Population and Development Review, volume 32, issue S1, pages 145-182
India: Population Change and Its Consequences
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Journal:
Population and Development Review
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
Q2
Impact factor: 2.5
ISSN: 00987921, 17284457
Sociology and Political Science
Development
Demography
Abstract
In the 1980s I wrote two books--The Poverty of Development Economics and Hindu Equilibrium. The first questioned the intellectual consensus on dirigiste trade and development policies; the second the view that Indias age-old poverty was due to over-population. These repudiated views on which I was brought up in the early 1960s at Oxford. I know the first of these works of revisionism has had some effect in changing perceptions on the appropriateness of outward-looking policies for development. But I had not realized the once heretical view that the is not a problem (except in the very short run and only if appropriate policies are not in place) is also now very much the consensus view. My late friend Julian Simon who was universally reviled by mainstream economists for his view that a large population is a countrys ultimate resource is now seen to have been proved right by a burgeoning body of research. During the mid-1970s to mid-1980s I was also associated with the World Banks research establishment. The sheaf of old memos in my files from those days demonstrates how entrenched was the old dirigiste consensus in an institution that is now seen as having been in the vanguard of the new revisionist consensus on population and development. So returning in this essay to the issues discussed in the first edition of The Hindu Equilibrium I feel rather like the old lady who went to see King Lear and found it full of quotations! I will first review what is now known of the economic effects of population growth over the last century in India including the emerging concerns that have been expressed by the environmental movement and why their attempts to legislate their habits of the heart pose real dangers for the welfare of the poor in India. I then examine the social and political consequences of this population growth. (excerpt)
Top-30
Citations by journals
|
1
|
|
|
Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
1 publication, 25%
|
|
|
1
|
Citations by publishers
|
1
|
|
|
IGI Global
1 publication, 25%
|
|
|
1
|
- We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
- Statistics recalculated only for publications connected to researchers, organizations and labs registered on the platform.
- Statistics recalculated weekly.
{"yearsCitations":{"type":"bar","data":{"show":true,"labels":[2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020],"ids":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"codes":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"imageUrls":["","","","","","","","","","","","",""],"datasets":[{"label":"Citations number","data":[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,2],"backgroundColor":["#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6","#3B82F6"],"percentage":["25",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"25",0,0,"50"],"barThickness":null}]},"options":{"indexAxis":"x","maintainAspectRatio":true,"scales":{"y":{"ticks":{"precision":0,"autoSkip":false,"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"},"stacked":false},"x":{"ticks":{"stepSize":1,"precision":0,"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"},"stacked":false}},"plugins":{"legend":{"position":"top","labels":{"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"}},"title":{"display":true,"text":"Citations per year","font":{"size":24,"family":"Montserrat","weight":600},"color":"#000000"}}}},"journals":{"type":"bar","data":{"show":true,"labels":["Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies"],"ids":[42661],"codes":[0],"imageUrls":["\/storage\/images\/resized\/7FMNeB9SnnAZoNUlPrVuDf3sVkEkt74weJA9emBp_medium.webp"],"datasets":[{"label":"","data":[1],"backgroundColor":["#3B82F6"],"percentage":[25],"barThickness":13}]},"options":{"indexAxis":"y","maintainAspectRatio":false,"scales":{"y":{"ticks":{"precision":0,"autoSkip":false,"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"},"stacked":false},"x":{"ticks":{"stepSize":null,"precision":0,"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"},"stacked":false}},"plugins":{"legend":{"position":"top","labels":{"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"}},"title":{"display":true,"text":"Journals","font":{"size":24,"family":"Montserrat","weight":600},"color":"#000000"}}}},"publishers":{"type":"bar","data":{"show":true,"labels":["IGI Global"],"ids":[7845],"codes":[0],"imageUrls":["\/storage\/images\/resized\/7FMNeB9SnnAZoNUlPrVuDf3sVkEkt74weJA9emBp_medium.webp"],"datasets":[{"label":"","data":[1],"backgroundColor":["#3B82F6"],"percentage":[25],"barThickness":13}]},"options":{"indexAxis":"y","maintainAspectRatio":false,"scales":{"y":{"ticks":{"precision":0,"autoSkip":false,"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"},"stacked":false},"x":{"ticks":{"stepSize":null,"precision":0,"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"},"stacked":false}},"plugins":{"legend":{"position":"top","labels":{"font":{"family":"Montserrat"},"color":"#000000"}},"title":{"display":true,"text":"Publishers","font":{"size":24,"family":"Montserrat","weight":600},"color":"#000000"}}}}}
Are you a researcher?
Create a profile to get free access to personal recommendations for colleagues and new articles.
Metrics
Cite this
GOST |
RIS |
BibTex |
MLA
Cite this
GOST
Copy
Lal D. India: Population Change and Its Consequences // Population and Development Review. 2006. Vol. 32. No. S1. pp. 145-182.
GOST all authors (up to 50)
Copy
Lal D. India: Population Change and Its Consequences // Population and Development Review. 2006. Vol. 32. No. S1. pp. 145-182.
Cite this
RIS
Copy
TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.tb00006.x
UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.tb00006.x
TI - India: Population Change and Its Consequences
T2 - Population and Development Review
AU - Lal, Deepak
PY - 2006
DA - 2006/12/01 00:00:00
PB - Wiley
SP - 145-182
IS - S1
VL - 32
SN - 0098-7921
SN - 1728-4457
ER -
Cite this
BibTex
Copy
@article{2006_Lal,
author = {Deepak Lal},
title = {India: Population Change and Its Consequences},
journal = {Population and Development Review},
year = {2006},
volume = {32},
publisher = {Wiley},
month = {dec},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.tb00006.x},
number = {S1},
pages = {145--182},
doi = {10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.tb00006.x}
}
Cite this
MLA
Copy
Lal, Deepak. “India: Population Change and Its Consequences.” Population and Development Review, vol. 32, no. S1, Dec. 2006, pp. 145-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.tb00006.x.