Questions and Exercises

1. Can Malthusian or Marxist theories be applied to deal with population and development issues in any country today?
2. What is your assessment of Hardin's argument that the poor countries are suffering from long age of population and not from shortage of resources?
3. Write a short note on four types of surplus labour.
4. What are the major differences in Malthusian and Marxist theories of population?
5. State the demographic transition theory.
6. Describe threshold hypothesis.
7. What are the major differences in demographic transition between developed and developing countries?
8. What are the economic assumptions behind optimum population theory?
9. Does the environment depend on population size only? What are all the factors determining environment impact?
10. Discuss Gandhian theory of population and its relevance in the present times.