A comment on research on Population Impacts on Economic .docVIP

A Personal View of Research on Population Impacts on Economic Development Tim Dyson Research on population impacts on economic development is very welcome. The subject is important. And presumably a key concern of the Hewlett/PRB initiative relates to the economic implications (other things equal) of rapid demographic growth. Of course, the relationship between population growth and economic growth has been a subject of scholarly interest since at least the late eighteenth century. But rapid demographic growth—usually taken to mean a growth rate of 2 percent per year or more—is chiefly