The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries

David Wheeler and Dan Hammer

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Abstract: Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relatively optimistic projections suggest that family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the coming decades. Since both activities affect fertility, population growth, and carbon emissions, they may also provide sufficient climate-related benefits to warrant additional financing from resources devoted to carbon emissions abatement. This paper considers the economic case for such support. [Working Paper No. 229]

Keywords: Female; education; family; planning; sustainable development; fertility; population growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11
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