1. It is sometimes said that declining fertility was a major contributor to sustained economic growth among the Asian tigers.Do you agree with this view?Use the microeconomic theory of fertility to argue that it was a rise in wages, spectacular growth of investments in manufacturing technology etc., that played a key role in reducing family size and slowing population growth in East Asia
2. Discuss the position espoused in the following statement:

Family planning alone is unlikely to reduce the birth rate; we have seen that it seldom works well in settings where

there has been little economic development.Population problems are not a cause but a consequence of

underdevelopment.