title: Reply to Stan Becker, "has the world really survived the population bomb? (Commentary on "how the world survived the population bomb: lessons from 50 years of extraordinary demographic history")".
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106, USA, davidl@umich.edu.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lam
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate / Q000639:trends*; D004467:Economics / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D011158:Population Growth; D011203:Poverty / Q000639:trends*; D012922:Social Change