High fertility and development in Cameroon

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ID22312487
AuthorsStella Nana-Fabu (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume16
Issue1
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Development in Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-1080 • E-ISSN: 1012-1080
PublisherAfrican Journals Online (AJOL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4314/jsda.v16i1.23865
OpenAlexW2105031236
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Many scholars of development, in sub Saharan Africa especially, have come to perceive increases in the African population as a threat to what is an already precarious balance between people and scarce natural resources, as well as being a handicap to general development in the region. Since the population increase trails behind food production and economic growth, there is severe population pressure on the environment as people try to scratch a living from the soil. This is also accompanied by the decline of per capita income and quality of life. Thus, the population hawk position (Teitelbaum 1975) maintains that the unrestrained population growth in Africa is the principal cause of poverty, malnutrition, environmental disruption and other social problems. This paper explores how family planning can be implemented in ways that would produce more positive results and enhance development in Cameroon. Journal of Social Development in Africa Vol 16 No 1 2001, pp. 23-42

Agriculture · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Malnutrition · Natural resource · Per capita · Per capita income · Political science · Population · Population growth · Poverty · Social change · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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