Comment in the Lancet about the Return of the Population Growth Factor: its impact on the Millennium Development Goals, a report of hearings held in the UK Parliament.
Return of the Population Growth Factor: its impact on the Millennium Development Goals, a report of hearings held in the UK Parliament in 2006, focuses on the devastating impact of population growth on the Millennium Dev elopment Goals (MDGs). The report was released on Jan 31. The Inquiry Chairman, Richard Ottaway, Mem ber of Parliament (MP), concludes: “The evidence is overwhelming: the MDGs are difficult or impossible to achieve with the current levels of population growth in the least developed countries and regions.”
Published in Lancet, February 3 2007, 369: 354-5
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