Title: Analytical perspectives for population and development research and planning.

POPLINE Document Number: 201462

Author(s):

Herrin AN

Source citation:

In: Population and development: frameworks for research and planning. Report of the Workshop on an Analytical Framework for Population and Development Research and Planning, Bangkok, Thailand, 16-20 February 1987. Bangkok, Thailand, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1988. :83-101. (Asian Population Studies Series, No. 82.|ST/ESCAP/596.)

Abstract:

This paper describes analytical perspectives that will help guide research into population-development interrelationships. The need for integration is based on the recognition that demographic variables influence development variables and are also influenced by them, and that demographic policies are integral parts of social and economic development policies aimed to improve levels of living and raise the quality of life. The paper describes a macro-planning perspective, which considers the demographic processes of fertility, mortality, migration, population size, age-sex structure, spatial distribution, and the socioeconomic processes of savings, investments, land, labor and capital utilization, consumption of goods and services, public expenditures, and external trade. The socioeconomic outcomes of interest include income, employment, health and nutrition, education and training, housing and sanitation, and environmental quality. A sectoral planning perspective can be used to extract population-development interactions at the sectoral level, i. e. economic, social services, and infrastructure sectors, by highlighting aspects directly related to the sector. The same macro-framework is used so that population-development interactions can conveniently be analyzed both within the sector and between sectors in the broader context of the macro-economy. A program/project planning perspective includes 4 basic components: 1) a household or individual decision-making model, 2) the physical, social and economic environment of the community, 3) autonomous changes in this environment, and 4) changes in the environment arising from population and development activities. Studies that might be pursued using these frameworks and already existing data include 1) economic and demographic transitions, the role of public policies; 2) a sectoral analysis of public policy and health outcomes; and 3) assessing the demographic impact of development projects, a project-level analysis.

Keywords:

Asia
Oceania
Population Dynamics
Population
Economic Development
Development Planning
Macroeconomic Factors
Models, Theoretical
Research Methodology
Planning
Management
Health Services Administration
Demographic Factors
Coordination
Demographic Transition
Population Theory
Developing Countries
Economic Factors
Organization and Administration
Demography
Social Sciences