Astonishing falls in the fertility rate are bringing with them (developing countries ?) big benefits

29 oktober 2009 in Economist

 THOMAS MALTHUS first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing was unfortunate, for something started happening around then which made nonsense of his ideas. As industrialisation swept through what is now the developed world, fertility fell sharply, [...]

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