Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America

by Georges Tapinos, Andrew Mason, Jorge Bravo

Overview

The papers in this volume address the influence of economic fluctuations upon mortality, fertility, and labor markets in the Latin America of the 1980s. Contributors attempt to distinguish short-term effects from long-term ones. Broader policy-related and institutional factors affecting the continent as a whole are examined alongside the demographic consequences of economic changes in individual countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198292104
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/05/1998
Series:	International Studies in Demography
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1530L (what's this?)

About the Author

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and INED, France

Program on Population, East-West Center and Department of Economics

CELADE, Chile

Table of Contents

1. Economic Adjustment and Demographic Responese in Latin America: An Overview, Reynaldo Bajraj, Jorge Bravo, and Georges Tapinos2. The Response of Fertility and Mortality to Economic Crisis and Structural Adjustment Policy during the 1980s: A Review, Andrew Mason3. Economic Crisis and Health Policy Response, Philip Musgrove4. The Effect of Structural Adjustment on Food Policy and Nutrition, Jere Behrman5. The Effects of Economic Changes on Mortality by Age and Cause: Latin America, 1950-90, Alberto Palloni and Kenneth Hill6. Short-term Economic Fluctuations and Demographic Behaviour, José Antonio Ortega-Osona and David Reher7. Demographic Consequences of Economic Adjustment in Chile, Jorge Bravo8. The Demographic Consequences of Structural Adjustment: The Case of Brazil, Eduardo Rios-Neto and José Alberto Magno de Carvalho9. Structural Adjustment and Family Labour Supply in Latin America, David Lam and Deborah Levison10. Economic Recession and Changing Determinants of Women's Work, Brigida García and Orlandina de Oliveira