But, to show how rapid population growth retards economic development, it is necessary to mention that by economic development we mean not only increase in national income (GNP) or per capita income, but also reduction in unemployment as a result of the growth of employment opportunities and reduction in poverty and inequalities of income. IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH ... United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division The Impact of AIDS 81 . In addition, the country undertook Demographic and Health Surveys in 1991–1992, 1996 and 2004–2005 and the … 0000002801 00000 n Disguised unemployment means more workers seem to be employed in it but quite a large number of additional workers do not add to agricultural output, that is, marginal productivity of workers in agriculture is zero or nearly zero. Further, if the economy is to be enter from reaching the stationary state controlling population growth is essential to achieve this aim. They share work in agriculture with other family members no matter how low the productivity per person becomes. This is so because the relation­ship between population growth and economic development is intricate, complex and interacting. If enough surpluses of food-grains are not forthcoming this acts as an important constraint on the industrial development. Image Guidelines 5. First, people with a higher level of living do not need children to supplement the family’s meagre income. assumptions to consider the impact of population growth on achievement of the development vision. H��WɎ����+� As a result of this explosive increase in labour force demographic pressure on the economy has increased resulting in increase in backlog of unemployment and under- unemployment at the beginning of each successive Five Year Plan. There is no wonder then, even after over 50 years of planned economic development, 317 million people lived below the poverty line in 1993-94. In the United States, where supplies of natural and capital resources are comparatively abundant growth in labour force caused by increasing population raises national output. Bloom and Canning (2004) also show that there are positive impacts on economic growth as baby boom cohorts join the labor force and save for retirement. He argued that with high fertility rate among the younger persons and declining mortality (death) rate among the old-age people, in the growing population the proportion of non-working age groups which depend on the working or earning members of their families increases. Population growth is essential for creating a strong base of high-income workers. Coale and Hoover, in their famous work explained that saving rate was reduced by population growth because of increase in burden of dependency. When population grows faster than GNP, the standard of living of the people does not improve. The larger the size of population, the larger will be the labor force. Therefore, greater focus on human and inclusive development in India is necessary to best utilise the demographic dividend. Prof. P.R. As a result sufficient amount of foreign exchange to import materials, machines and equipment for our industries could not be made and this obstructed the growth of industrial output. %%EOF Now, marketed surplus of food-grains is the difference between the output of food-grains by the agricultural population and their consumption of them. Thus, policies that have to be adopted to check population growth should aim to reduce the birth rate, the increase in birth rate is ruled out for obvious reasons. In order to overcome the shortage of food-grains and to prevent the occurrence of famines in the country, India was forced to import food-grains and spend a good amount of valuable foreign exchange on them. Since all must consume, in the absence of increase to productivity, saving per person must fall. This is because, as has been pointed out by Kuznets, “in under-developed countries people have an intense tendency to have more children because under the economic and social conditions large proportions of the population see their economic and social interests in more children as a supply family labour, as a pool for a genetic lottery, and as a matter of economic and social security a non-protecting society.”. Rapid Population Growth as an Obstacle to Economic Growth. Last but not the least the important consequence of rapid population growth is that it has made very difficult to make a significant dent into the problem of mass poverty prevailing in’ the country. Thomas Malthus theorized in 1798 that too much population growth too fast would overtax the Earth's resources and eventually lead to disease, starvation and death. Empirical studies conducted in several countries reveal that there is inverse relation between the fertility rate and education, especially of women and girls. This will discourage the employed women to bear more children. Brahmananda writes, “A stationary economy with an open ended population expansion angle II be the greatest permanent disaster for the country. (Harvard … While projected income changes have the highest partial impact on per capita food consumption levels, population growth leads to the highest increase in total food production. When a country grows and accelerates its pace of industrialization, it requires food-grains to feed the workers who are employed in industries. But, to show how rapid population growth retards economic development, it is necessary to mention that by economic development we mean not only increase in national income (GNP) or per capita income, but also reduction in unemployment as a result of the growth of employment opportunities and reduction in poverty and inequalities of income. As about 65% of the population is engaged in agriculture, the most of the increase in population also takes place there. Increasing supplies of capital goods become possible only with higher rate of investment and a higher role of investment, of turn, is possible if the rate of savings is high. He further adds, “Such an atmosphere cannot be conducive for economic progress. Thus, while the aggregate national income of India went up by 3.6% per annum in the First Plan period and 4.1% per annum in the Second Plan period, per capita income rose by only 1.8 per cent and 2 per cent per annum respectively. That the population growth prevents the rapid rise in per capita Income and therefore rise in living standards of the people can be expressed by the following growth formula. ���;w ���#LQNU]���Ӹvon���s�98d7Ї�T��x-SL�ѽ��{ٷ���k�Rө-�� ~�L���f9j9�A�Rv����Y&��}�e��3��p��c��底���z`�UtS��0w=kp���|xJή�㢕{'e��XpU���8��Z�[��p�Rw��97�C�����Q. Pills, condoms, foam tablets, jellies and others should be mad freely available. Population growth can be reduced by reducing the birth rate. The educated men and women accept small family norm and more readily take family planning measures such as use of contraceptives. 0000005276 00000 n But after some time ‘impress ion was created among the female population that it was not very safe. In developing areas of the world, population growth can seem to have a positive effect on local economies. the relationship between population growth and economic development. Now, an important question is what policies can be adopted to control population. (4) Allotment of scarce public houses, housing plots, flats etc. The positive impact of economic development: Threshold: With a formalized economy in place, manufacturers can manufacture goods and market the same to get the highest price possible for the same. This, essentially, means that such a population will have a very positive influence on the … �,�[�L`1� 1XD����C�n�}���Z-� �����%���4[ ��X If the standards of living of the poor go up as a result of economic development, they will readily adopt small family norm. Enhances nation security Today, civilians in several small nations such as South Korea have to carry mandatory military service. This had an adverse effect on industrial development in India. As someone has remarked population growth brings in more hands to work for production and therefore contributes to economic growth. In the opinion of the present author, the policy of forced sterilisation is quite inhuman; it is treating human beings as animals. The cause of food problem in India is the rapid growth in population since 1951. It will be seen from this table that the annual growth in per capita income has been much less than the annual growth rate in that national income. Explosive growth in population has caused serious unemployment and under-employment problem in India. Investible Resources and Raising Per Capita Income: While on the one land rapid growth in population reduces investible resources for accelerating capital formation, it raises the requirements for investment to achieve a given target increase in per capital income. Pakistan needs to control the growth rate by providing awareness to the people through its family planning program. significant effect (or perhaps even some positive effect) on economic growth (Kuznets 1967). 0000000596 00000 n At the time that he made his prediction, the world's population was only at 800 million, but now, it's over 7 billion. However, it may be noted that over-population and rapid the population rate is especially an Asian problem. Deforestation restrictions strongly impact the price of land and water resources but have little consequences for the global level of food production and food prices. To a certain extent lack of capital may be made up by harder work by workers in a country like India. Where 0 stands for output of food-grains, and C. for consumption of food-grains by the fanners themselves. Since production processes in modem organised industrial sector is highly capital intensive, much of the growing labour force cannot be employed there. Therefore, in the absence of employment opportunities outside agriculture, much of the additional labour force is forced to remain in agriculture and allied activities. Since population growth reduces savings and investable resources, it is very difficult to withdraw any significant number of workers from agriculture so as to equal, them with the required capital to provide them productive employment outside agriculture. This prevents the living standards of the people to rise rapidly. TOS 7. This suggestion of introducing an element of compulsion in the sterilisation programme implies that one is not hopeful of various incentives and discentives succeeding in achieving the objective of stationeries in population size. This increase in population in the agriculture raises the consumption of food-grains, i.e., Cs in the above equation and therefore reduces the marketable surplus, if output remains the same. It will be seen that since 1951, population has been growing at about 2 per cent or more. In agriculture, self-employment is predominant and the joint family system prevails under which both household’s income and work are shared among the family members. In absolute numbers there will be approximately 63.5 million new entrants to the working age group between 2011 and 2016. In fact, the name of the ministry has been changed from Ministry for Family Planning to Ministry of Family Welfare. Widespread unemployment, a high degree of socio-economic tensions if current explosive growth in population is not checked. As Chapter 4 showed, in industrializing Europe it seldom exceeded 1.5 percent a year, compared with the 2 to 4 percent that most developing coun-tries have averaged since World War II. 1. Stressing the importance of controlling population growth in India characterised by w economic growth, the existence of mass poverty and unemployment. Since independence, Tanzania undertook census enumerations in 1967, 1978, 1988 and, most recently, in 2002. Some of the incentives and disincentives adopted to promote family planning are: (1) Elimination or reduction of maternity leaves and benefits beyond a certain number. Family planning programme would now be an integral part of comprehensive family welfare policy covering education, health and child care, family planning and women’s rights and nutrition. Keywords: Population Growth, Economic Development, Environment, and Poverty ... the preventive check and positive check. This is because in the modern times man can produce little with bare hands. Before publishing your articles on this site, please read the following pages: 1. Those who violate this either penalties may be imposed or they are forced to undergo the operation. Impact of India’s Population Growth on Economic Development Economics SHUBHI AGARWAL Research Scholar, Department Of Economics, Ccs University, Meerut KEYWORDS ABSTRACT Population is the resource of labor force. In India where supplies of other economic resources, especially capital equipment, are relatively search in­crease in population or labour force does not lead to the employment of all due to scarcity of capital resources. Labor alone cannot produce anything. The accent in new policy is on integrating contraception with public health, medical care, material and child health and nutrition. This higher proportion of young labour force in India has a great production potential and has therefore been called ‘demographic dividend’. In Table 41.1 we present population growth in India. It should be ensured that fruits of economic development should reach these poor people. These four States account for 39 per cent of India’s population. To maintain the integrity of a nation during war, the government necessitates these services among public. This result was in several respects counterintuitive: neo-Mal thusian antinatalist arguments were widespread at the time, chiefly voiced by non-economists (Ehrlich 1971); and Coale and Hoover (1958) had identified several ways in which population growth was likely to constrain economic development. Prohibited Content 3. <<3a46da547fab2847a34c29736d36b6ce>]>> In other developing countries such as Pakistan Bangladesh, rate of population has been greater than that of India. extent with the character of social and economic development in India which has failed to remove mass poverty and improve the levels of living of the poor and weaker sections of the society. trailer Population Growth and Unproductive Investment: In his study of population growth and economic development in India Coale and Hoover focussed on the adverse effect of population growth on the resources a variable for productive investment. And these are states where the progress of family planning is slow. Now, increase in population by adding to the number people whose requirements of “feeding and clothing” have to be met which tends to raise consumption and, therefore, lowers both saving and investment. population growth: Positive or negative impacts on economic, social, political, natural resources and environmental developments Kiros Abeselom Wolaita Sodo University, P. O. The relationship between population growth and economic development has been a recurrent theme in economic analysis since at least 1798 when Thomas Malthus famously argued that population growth would depress living standards in the long run. But such a method of adjustment is not easy to achieve in India. Therefore, on important measure to reduce the birth rate is the promotion of education, especially among female population of the country. … 0000005949 00000 n ���:C�o���CUY��:�-��O�N�HN���g���q�"~bKj��4D��b����k�/y�m=DV3�g��qfK�����YR�],�-���%IxM��+���f Thus is because the resource requirements of feeding and clothing even at the current low levels are such that the incremental population itself constraints the ability of the economy to raise the living standards of the existing population.”. Further, it is important to note that the bulk of this increase is likely to take place in the relatively younger age group of20-35years. Economic development requires that employment should increase adequately so that unemployment should decrease. Annual Average Growth Rate (at 2004-05): However, since 1991 population growth rate has been less than 2 per cent, it was 1.93 per cent between 1991 to 2001 and 1.6 per cent between 2001-2011, on the one hand and growth rate of national income was much higher on the other (see Table 41.2). 0000002562 00000 n In the opinion of the present author if the population growth in India has remained virtually unchecked in spite of a nationwide family planning programme, the fault does not lie solely with the programme but to a much greater di! Derek and Andrew (2009) through regression analysis conclude that the impact of population growth varies between being negative, positive and … Accordingly, if population is to be effectively checked not only the tempo of economic development. To quote him “The sad fact remains that in large parts of India, especially in U.P., Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan women literacy rate in the rural areas is less than 10per cent. endstream endobj 72 0 obj<> endobj 74 0 obj<> endobj 75 0 obj<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/ExtGState<>>> endobj 76 0 obj<> endobj 77 0 obj<> endobj 78 0 obj[/ICCBased 85 0 R] endobj 79 0 obj<> endobj 80 0 obj<> endobj 81 0 obj<> endobj 82 0 obj<>stream The rapid growth of population has direct impact on the environment and economy. A higher rate of economic growth can be achieved by accelerating the rate of capital formation. The existing state of knowledge does not warrant any clear-cut generalization as to the effect of population growth on economic development in today's less developed areas. Positive effects of population growth: Population growth contributes to the new inventions and growth of a country. Companies will try to sell to this market, the largest in the world, and tailor their products to … Recently, policy of providing economic incentives and discentives has been adopted in some countries to discourage the people from having more children beyond a certain number which is generally fixed at two or three. There are two schools of thought regarding this issue. According to them, rapid population growth forces the country to make non-productive investment, that is, to invest in duplicating certain social welfare facilities such as the construction of parks, houses, social buildings, sanitation works. To the Greek philosophers, about 2,500 years ago, population growth was undesirable as it adversely affects economic development. Moreover, when educated women are employed, their tendency to bear and rear more children falls. 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