This is reflected in the Second Five Year Plan.2 Some scholars tend to think that the focus given to the overpopulation thesis as being of the main cause of poverty, is grossly exaggerated and highly inaccurate.3 Rather this line of thinking tends to divert attention away from more crucial factors underlying poverty and underdevelopment e. g. unequal distribution of resources .and ends up by making the poor responsible for their own misery. ...

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