Population Growth, Malthusian concern and sustainable development - some key Policies and demographic issues in India
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population, demographic issue, sustainable development, policies, Malthusian concern
Abstract
Population size and growth continue to be the paramount issues regarding sustainable development in India notwithstanding the fact that the Indian economy has grown by a little over 5 percent during the last two decades compared to the population growth of about 2 per cent during the same period The reason is that the Malthusian concern has been the core of Indian policy planning thinking This has while perpetuated the belief that population growth is the immediate culprit of high poverty and environmental degradation demographic issues such as distribution of Population age composition migration and urbanization are being neglected in the planning for sustainable development The paper highlights the lack of integration of comprehensive demographic issues with sustainable development planning in India and explores the political economy reasons for lopsided consideration of demographic issues in sustainable development planning during the last five decades since independence
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2012-03-15
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