Population Control and Development (1965)
It is hard to avoid a considerable pessimism about the prospects for economic development in the countries of the tropical belt in the immediate future, ... The principal obstacle is the demographic upheaval which has resulted from the introduction of chemical insecticides and of malaria control ... in one or two years around 1950. ... Perhaps the best hope for these countries would be to have a sharp reduction in the birth rate, beginning almost immediately. This is by no means off the agenda, with the development of inter-uterine devices for birth control. ... In many of these countries, however, if birth rates continue at their present high rate, for say the next twenty years, the situation looks almost hopeless.
"Prospects for World Development in the Next Ten Years," 4/23/64, Boulding Unpublished Manuscripts, University of Colorado Library.
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