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What is population? Is greater population is dangerous for country? |
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Answer» The relationship between population growth and ECONOMIC development has been a RECURRENT theme in economic analysis since at least 1798 when Thomas Malthus famously argued that population growth would depress living standards in the long run. The theory was simple: given that there is a fixed quantity of land, population growth will eventually reduce the amount of resources that each individual can consume, ultimately resulting in disease, STARVATION, and war. The way to avoid such unfortunate outcomes was ‘moral RESTRAINT’ (i.e. refraining from having too many children). He didn’t foresee the technological ADVANCES that would raise agricultural productivity and reduce the toll of infectious diseases—advances that have enabled the world’s population to grow from 1 billion in 1798 to 7.4 billion today. |
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