vehement in
denying any connection between poverty and over-population. Some people
such as Ester Boserup[4] are of the opinion that overpopulation, more than
anything else, was responsible for the creation of a highly developed human
civilization. Other critics of the Malthusian theory, mainly Marxists,
believe that unequal distribution of resources rather than over-population
is the cause of poverty and scarcity.
However, even if we agree with the argument that increase in human
population was beneficial in the past and that the global food production
...