In popular discourse, overpopulation is often blamed to be one of the major reasons of poverty, especially in the context of South Asia and Africa. So is population really a problem? How do we use economic knowhow to answer this question?
About the Speaker:
Vipin Veetil is an assistant professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Vipin received his PhD in economics from George Mason University and was a Mercatus Center PhD fellow.