PERHAPS more than any other aspect of Communist China, the problem posed by its enormous population growth has begun to cause anxiety and concern to its neighbors in Southeast Asia. It is true that ...

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THE SPECTACLE of some 100 heads of state and 50,000 conferees gathering these past two weeks in Johannesburg for a fractious and even raucous U.N. summit on sustainable development may have left the ...

MANKIND has the technical ability to reduce the toll of sickness and poverty throughout the world to an extent never dreamed of even a few decades ago. Yet we teeter on the brink of self-destruction ...

Think of global population problems and you might think of the growing number of people in the world – currently about 8 billion – and our collective toll on the planet. But due to people having fewer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. If population issues were like steel production, China would be making ...