Population and Poverty Issues at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Author: Stan D'SouzaPublisher: Indian Social InstituteYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 383ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187218320 DescriptionThis publication brings together the shared international experience of demographers and social scientists with activists in the field of population and poverty. While the scope of the publication is global, Indian issues are given prime importance.Two hundred years ago in 1798 an Anglican clergyman, Robert Malthus, published an anonymous article, which for the first time, in a scientific manner, linked the problem of poverty to the question of population growth. The rapid growth of population, he argued, would eventually lead to serious increases in death rates due to the inability to provide food for everyone. Malthus assumed that, while food production could increase at an arithmetic progression, populations would grow at a geometric progression. The population of the world has burgeoned from around an estimated 900 million from the time of Mal