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Write short note : Positive and preventive checks on population.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Population Dynamics

Thomas Robert Malthus, in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), argued that population when unchecked grows in a geometric ratio while subsistence grows at best in an arithmetic one. Numbers must therefore be held down to the food supply by "checks", which he divided into two kinds — the distinction that made his…

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