A Population Explosion?
Summary – Acknowledgement – Introduction – Why Should We Help? – The Benefits – The Venture Itself – How to Avoid the Marie Antoinette Syndrome – The Action Plan – Conclusion – Selected Bibliography
The final argument — that ODA will cause a destructive population explosion — is also unfounded. Generally, when the poor have access to food, the benefits of basic infrastructure, modern health services, a livelihood, and education, they tend to have fewer children, not more. The need to have many children so that some children survive to adulthood is much less powerful when extreme poverty is mitigated. (Sachs, 2005, pp. 323-326; Yunus, 2003, p. 134) A population explosion will not occur if poverty is addressed.
Read More: It’s Their Own Fault If They Are Poor – Jared Diamond and Western (Cargo) – Ineffective Aid – Muhammad Yunus and Microcredit – Unscrupulous People – The System – Grameen Bank – It Doesn’t Affect Us, So Why Should We Care? – The Poor Will Always Be With Us – There Is No Point In Giving Aid – Where Does All The Money Go? – Africa’s Onerous Challenges – Africa’s Extreme Poverty – Corruption and Poor Governance – Lack of Modern Values and Free Market Economies – A Population Explosion? – Why Not Leave It to the United Nations and the World’s Governments? – The UN – The Governments of the World – Grassroots Movements
