The economic, political and social conditions in under- developed countries are
such as to make their growing population inimical to economic growth . Most of
the economists are of the view that many under developed countries. Especially
of the South East Asian countries, are over populated and the population
pressure is a great barrier is the way of their economic development and unless
this barrier is broken all efforts at accelerating economic growth will prove
futile. However a way out of this population barrier has been suffused in the
form of a critical minimum effort the critical minimum effort thesis has been
put forward by Prof. Harvey According to him, the under-developed over
populated countries are in a Malthusian Under employment Equilibrium position
based on a subsistence structure. He
quotes DuPont’s capillarity thesis according to which when a community realizes
that there are greater chances to rise socially with a fewer children than with
a larger family, there is change in social attitudes and strong motivation for
restricting the family as per capita income rises.
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