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  • THOMAS MALTHUS was an English economist and demographer who theorized that population growth tends to exceed food supplies. Thus the improvement of living conditions of humankind is impossible without a strict policy of birth control. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Malthus, Thomas (1766–1834)]

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