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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The power of population for economies -Dilip D’Souza

The power of population for economies -Dilip D’Souza

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published Published on Aug 6, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 6, 2022

-Livemint.com

Development—healthcare, jobs, education—inevitably lowers the total fertility rate

Give me a rupee for every time I have heard “demographic advantage" applied to India in the last several years, and I’d be sitting on a small fortune. Invariably, the mentions are tinged with pride, as if we’ve suddenly transformed into a commendably and overwhelmingly young nation.

Truth is, we used to be even younger and are getting steadily older. But that’s a story for another time.

Over 200 years ago, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus wrote in his Essay on Population—“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the Earth to produce subsistence for man." Ever since, that bleak vision has influenced plenty of scientists.

Malthus addressed an age-old and ongoing wrangle. For, population often sets off furious intellectual battles, whose antagonists barely speak to each other.

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Livemint.com, 6 August, 2021, https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/the-power-of-population-for-economies-11628184138539.html


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