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Population growth drives poverty

Posted September 8th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Fertility, Poverty and Income Inequality, Sub-Saharan Africa

An article in The Guardian looks at how explosive population growth in poor countries that could doom poverty reduction efforts. The problem is particularly bad in sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates have not declined as they have in other developing countries.

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