Volume 41, Number 15 · September 22, 1994
Population: Delusion and Reality
By Amartya Sen
Few issues today are as divisive as what is called the 'world population problem.' With the approach this autumn of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, organized by the United Nations, these divisions among experts are receiving enormous attention and generating considerable heat. There is a danger that in the confrontation between apocalyptic pessimism, on the one hand, and a dismissive smugness, on the other, a genuine understanding of the nature of the population problem may be lost.[1]
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