Population and development Review 31/4

Book : Population and development Review 31/4

Author : * --

Language : English

Library : Population

Publish Place : New York

ISSN : 0098-7921

Volume : 31-4

Period : monthly

Publish Date : December 2005

Publisher : The Population Council

Book Type : Periodical

Book Number : 4831

INDEX

ARTICLES
The Next 50 Years: Unfolding Trends
Vaclav Smil
Inequality in Life Spans and a New Perspective on Mortality Convergence Across Industrialized Countries
RyanD. Edwards Shripad Tuljapurkar
Determinants of Mortality at Older Ages: The Role of Biological Markers of Chronic Disease
Cassio M. Turra Noreen Goldman Christopher L. Seplaki Dana A. Glei Yu-Hsuan Lin Maxine Weinstein
Policies Addressing the Tempo Effect in Low-Fertility Countries
Wolfgang Lutz Vegard Skirbekk
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
On Net Intergenerational Wealth Flows: An Update
John C. Caldwell
DATA AND PERSPECTIVES
The Timing and Pace of Health Transitions around the World
JAMES C. RlLEY
ARCHIVES
Paul Fauchille on the Rights of Emigration and Immigration
BOOK REVIEWS
National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, Panel on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries, Cynthia B. Lloyd (ed.), Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries
John G. Haaga
Gordon H. Sellon, Jr. (ed.), Global Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges; A Symposium Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 26-28,2004
Geoffrey McNicoll
Herwig Birg, Die ausgefallene Generation: Was die Demographie tiber unsere Zukunft sagt (The generation that dropped out: What demography says about our future)
ETIENNE VAN DE WALLE
Roger Mark Selya, Development and Demographic Change in Taiwan 1945-1995
Zachary Zimmer
Short Reviews
Majid Ezzati, Alan D. Lopez, Anthony Rodgers, and Christopher J. L. Murray (eds.), Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors
Terence H. Hull (ed.), People, Population, and Policy in Indonesia
Gavin W. Jones and Mehtab S. Karim (eds.), Islam, the State and Population Policy
Sarah Michael, Undermining Development: The Absence of Power among Local NGOs in Africa
Lisa Smyth, Abortion and Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Ireland
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and United Nations Population Fund, The New Demographic Regime: Population Challenges and Policy Responses
Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know?
DOCUMENTS
Report of the Global Commission on International Migration
ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS FOR THIS ISSUE
CONTENTS TO VOLUME 31