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Inaugural Lecture (Demography and Social Statistics)

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    Population: the Primordial and Universal Denominator
    (Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 1975-04-29) Adenola, A. lgun
    The objectives of this lecture are to define and explain population, make a plea for its just attention, identify some of its problems and ramifications for all aspects of human endeavours, delineate the role of demography in analyzing and identifying them, suggest some of the equipment for and point directions towards the solutions of these problems.
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    Population and Quality of Life
    (Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 1997-11-11) Ebigbola, J. A.
    Drawing on the experience of the developed countries, many developing countries embarked on, various development programmes in the post war era in order to improve the quality of life of their people. With the passing of the 1945 Colonial Development and Welfare Act, the British territories started to draw up long-term development plans. Similarly the Monnet plan prepared in France in 1946 was ...Later extended to the French overseas territories. About the same time. Long term economic. programmes were prepared for the Portuguese territories. •under the immediate impetus of the requirements of the United States • Marshall Plan aid. In an attempt to 'ca1Gh up' with the developed countries, the developing countries came to the conclusion that their development programmes would have to be implemented at a faster rate. Hence, there had been series of development plans aimed ,t •achieving the objective of improving the standard of living of the. masses in these societies