Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceEconomicsPOPULATION2 Marks
Question
"In India poverty is responsible for high birth rate" Explain.
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Answer
In India low income and poverty are responsible for high birth rate.
From the view point of poor families children are not burden but assets to earn wealth.
Children are assets in poor families because marginalized benefits they are getting is more than the expense they incur.
In poor family the expense of giving birth to a child and the expense to bring the child up is negligible on the other hand at an early age they help to maintain family by working as farm laborer, or working in a hotel etc.
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