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The economic effects of population control

Can we feed and shelter the rising population with available land? [XN Iraki]

The holding of an international conference on population and development 25 (ICPD 25) in Kenya just after the census results can’t go unnoticed. 

The conference was to mark 25 years since 179 governments and other stakeholders held an ICPD in Cairo, says the ICPD website. One of the objectives of the first conference was “to advance human well-being by placing the rights of individuals at the centre of the global development agenda.”

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