... the government has to take into account that an increase in population growth may equate to the maximization of scarce resources. Similarly, to a developed country, the government might worry about the replacement rate may not be able to sustain a dynamic economy. Asian countries now have political freedom, but this freedom is meaningless without development in their economy (Mason, 2001). Therefore all these countries have started with their own long term economic plans. The biggest impediment to their economy is the fast growing population. So, the basic economic and social problem in Asia is really demographic. On the other hand, there will be some challenges in a controlling population growth if the measures taken up are coercive or draconian in nature such as Indira Ghandi's India and China's "One Child Policy" (Eager, 2004). First of all, control of population growth reduces environmental threat. To illustrate, massive rural to ...

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