Effects of Rapid Population Growth While population growth is at times a beneficial thing for a species‚ there are many factors that define when growth becomes detrimental. When population growth becomes "rapid" there is a great chance that the counter-productive level has been reached. The most accurate index is the balance between population and sustainability. 1. Rapid Growth o Rapid growth is a quick increase in population. The number concerned when calculating the population is the number
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human capital is the key to economic growth and development in any nation. This stems from the fact that every other facility and resource required for economic development is driven by the availability of human capital. More so‚ in the absence of effective human capital development‚ an increasing population can have adverse negative effect on the economic growth of a nation. This is because a lot more resources is taken out to manage and cater for the teeming population that the same can generate
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POPULATION GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT The consequences of population growth on economic development have attracted the attention of economists ever since Adam smith wrote his Wealth of nations. It was only Malthus and Ricardo who created an alarm about the effect of population growth on the economy. Population and Economic Development However‚ the consequences of population growth on the development of LDCs are not the same because the conditions prevailing in these countries are quite different
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RAPID POPULATION GROWTH IS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF HUMAN RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN NIGERIA. WHAT CAN BE DONE TO REDUCE THIS PROBLEM? A MANPOWER ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT Akinrodoye Adunola INTRODUCTION Population can be defined as the number of people living in any defined area at any given time. Hence the population of Nigeria consists of all the people who live in the country at any given time (Dictionary of Economics‚ 1998; Ojo‚ 1997). Population however cannot be treated in
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When a population grows rapidly‚ it can put great stress on an area such as a community or a country. When sudden extreme population growth occurs‚ food will become a prized possession‚ more people will die due to disease and war‚ and the economy will be affected. As a population grows‚ all the additional people will need food immediately to survive. There will not be time to develop new sources of food over many years. Instead‚ more and more people will need food more and more and the food will
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DO LARGE POPULATION A KEY TO ECONOMIC PROGRESS Introduction: Thomas Malthus in his published book “An Essay on the Principle of Population” claimed that there is a tendency for the population growth rate to surpass the production growth rate because population increases at a geometrical rate while production increases at an arithmetic rate. Thus‚ the unfettered population growth in a country could plunge it into acute poverty. However‚ the pessimist view has proven unfounded for developed economies
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Poverty and rapid population growth Is rapid population growth a cause of poverty or is poverty a cause of rapid population growth? It is a life long argument as to whether rapid population growth is caused by poverty of if poverty is caused by rapid population growth. In this essay I will try to analyse both sides of the argument and form a conclusion. Many people think that poverty is the cause of rapid population growth‚ there are many reasons for this. Firstly lack of education is a huge
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Rapid Growth in Global Population by Yoshie Kikuchi Introduction The rapid growth in global population is not caused by any single reason. The frequent appearance of the subject in different United Nations Conferences such as the Conference on Environment and Development and the International Conference on Population and Development reflects the complexity of the problem. Population growth is so intricately intertwined with international economic imbalances and environmental degradation that
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Interests in the study of economic growth and development have been on the increase especially since the middle of the present century. Economic growth results in the expansion of a country’s production possibility curve such that the potential output of the country is increased beyond the previous levels. Thus growth is often defined in terms of a sustained increase in the real per capita income of a country. Simon Kuznets in (Todaro‚ 1885)‚ defined a country’s economic growth as “a long term rise in
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increase population in demand in resources will sparks the competition between the producers. The evolve of technology will help the population to develop. China is one of many countries that is taking the advantages of the rapid population. Population & development The world has been going through many changes recently. Two of the most noticeable changes are increase in population and development. Population Growth is a bane? There are two major theories supporting the populating growth being
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