Anti-Malthusians

Question 1

What are the basic ideas of Anti-Malthusians?

Answer 1

• Believe there are enough global resources to go around that the process of development will naturally help to bring the population down
• Children will start to survive through better healthcare, educated women have fewer children and therefore family size decreases.
• Sort out development and the population problem will sort out.

Question 2

Anti-Malthusians on gender/women in developing world?

Answer 2

Development will educate women meaning they will be more focused on careers then families.

Question 3

Anti-Malthusians on health, education and employment?

Answer 3

Argued women have become better education, started having fewer children, leading to decline in brith rates.
- They believe the declined birth rates is due to better health as people used to have more children due to high infant mortality rate

Question 4

Anti-Malthusians on population growth?

Answer 4

Argue that population growth is no longer an issue that we need to worry about as it is naturally sorting itself out as development occurs.