WHY MALTHUS WAS WRONG Over the past 10 years‚ Indianpopulationhas risen by 220 million people‚ reaching an estimated 1‚22 billion in 2012. Theeffectsof thispopulationincrease are evident in the increasing poverty‚ unemployment‚ air and water pollution‚ shortage of foo...
What is infuriating is to witness the chronic poverty, the lack of access to water, the absence of decent infrastructure or income generating opportunities, the deteriorating health system and the corrupt governance and put it into perspective with the fact that organisations such as mine at the t...
But aid workers and antipoverty groups say that current laws governing American food aid could delay or hurt recovery efforts in the Philippines, where the disaster has reignited a long-running argument in the United States — the world’s largest foo...
China's development over the last few decades has lifted 500 million people out of poverty; it is basically the reason the UN has accomplished so many of the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000. The chart below, by Max Roser of Our World in Data, shows that China's growth has had ...