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To: Krowbar who wrote (79461)	5/17/2000 12:20:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

No, actually I do not think he had much to do with anything. It has become almost axiomatic in development economics that as GDP grows in a given country, the birth rate goes down, mainly among the middle classes and wealthy. This is true even in countries that tend to disapprove of birth control, or limit access to it. This is not because they all start reading "The Population Bomb", but because it is natural to want to limit child-bearing when it ceases to have the kind of incentives that are present in subsistence communities, and affluence provides the means. This phenomenon has been demonstrated irrespective of international or national initiatives promoting birth control methods.......