Population Control: State Sponsored Violence Against Women

Abstract

The planet is getting polarized in demographic and economic terms. Developing countries experience problems with their population growth along with pervasive poverty. Demographic projection of population raise questions on the ability of the earth's carrying capacity to maintain people at adequate standard of living. Inspite of the overall improvement there are wide variations in the quality of life of people. High rates of growth of population therefore certainly need to be contained. Thomas Malthus in 1798, exactly two centuries ago, had warned
about maintaining.the balance between population and flood-supply unless population size was controlled. The population in these two centuries has grown six fold from one billion to six billion. Food available in the market is enough to feed all, and on this count Malthus is proved wrong. If people still go hungry it is because of absence of distributive justice in the prevailing social system. Similar situation prevails with respect to other resources.