... to improve standard of living of a nation; the means by which a traditional, low-technology society is changed into a modern, high-technology society, with a corresponding increase in incomes" (Oxford Dictonary of Geography, Susan Mayhew, 1997:128). Indeed this development is what we mean and it is affected and hindered by many factors, perhaps including high population growth. It is undisputed that there is a relationship between population and development, but the relationship is complex and which way it actually works is unclear. "In the nineteenth century, population growth was linked to economic success" (Furedi, 1997:34), economists recognised that there was a link between the two factors but it wasn't really decided until the 1930s what the link was. At this time it was believed that poverty and underdevelopment was an outcome of a slow rate of population growth. High population growth meant a growing labour force and therefore greater output, income ...

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