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Old 10-25-2007, 12:45 PM
Maulik Maulik is offline
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Default Re: World Population Growth

If, and this is a stretch, most of the world becomes an industrialized and economic growth begins or continues, they'll require a lower replacement rate to subsist. The theory situates that poor families have larger birth rates to ensure they'll have a caretaker at the age of retirement which acts as their pension.
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