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The mechanisms of demographic change in historical perspective

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  • See also Hawthorn G. ‘Introduction’ Journal of Development Studies July 1978 14 4 special issue on ‘Population and Development’, especially pp. 9–10. The latter criticism is somewhat confused and the author appears to believe that the changes outlined are ‘mere fashion’, while at the same time putting forth a rather extraordinary theory that family transformation in Ghana and Nigeria ‘is caused by men wishing to assert some control over their wives’.
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