This book evaluates the evidence on the impacts of population growth on well-being in developing countries and … concludes that slowing population growth from high current levels, especially in poor, agrarian societies facing pressure on …

population and considerable food security may call for policies that boost fertility, immigration, and worker participation …"For much of its history, human population growth increased at a glacial pace. The demographic rate only soared about … 200 years ago, climaxing in the period 1950-2000. In that 50-year span, the population grew more than it had in the …