A Review of the Relationship between Poverty, Population Growth, and Environment

Seeme Mallick and Naghmana Ghani ()
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Seeme Mallick: Deputy Director Environment, New Murree Development Authority.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2005, vol. 44, issue 4, 597-614

Abstract: A discussion is presented on demographic transition that was successfully completed by developed countries, whereas developing countries are still at various stages of this transition. The paper suggests that in developing countries the condition of poverty has a strong influence on population growth rates. The paper presents an analysis regarding approaches followed by different schools of thought on the relationship between population, poverty and the environment. These schools agree that poverty and population growth rates have strong links, but they provide contrasting explanations for this link. As a result of this, they suggest divergent policy options to reach the common goal of sustainable population growth

Date: 2005
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