Africa, some sobering numbers (15)
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Reply to Peter Burgess
Dear All,
One can prove anything if one uses numbers in the wrong way...
Can I have a historical perspective and a beautiful diagram?
There would now be much less of a problem if the Romans had been able
to go South.
'Modernisation' could then have taken place slowly over a couple of
millennia.
As it is the 'population explosion' effect of modernisation has been
taking place, without other aspects of modernisation (development)
being able to keep up with it.
Whatever else is done, that explosion has to be damped down.
Fertility has not even started to fall in a third of the countries in
the region.
All very useful 'benign uproar'!!!
Maurice King
Honorary Research Fellow
The University of Leeds
5 Ashwood Villas
Leeds LS6 2 EJ, UK
Phone and Fax: +44-113-2304441
mailto:M.H.King@leeds.ac.uk
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/demographic.disentrapment
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