DEVELOPMENT: Soaring Population May Swamp Anti-Poverty Goals

Inter Press Service by Thalif Deen | Aug. 17, 2009 (Special Report)

The goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 could be jeopardised by soaring population growth, mostly in the developing world.

World population is expected to reach seven billion by 2011, a year earlier than expected, according to the latest figures released by the Population Research Bureau last week. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 18, 2009

Deen seems to get the overpopulation problem, and addresses a variety of aspects of it. Worth a read.

Tamara Kreinin, executive director of the United Nations Foundation’s (UNF) Women and Population Programme, told IPS, “We can’t be sure about the population growth, but what we do know is that there are 201 million women who would like access to education and services for voluntary family planning and do not have them.”

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