General Article What goes up: are predictions of a population crisis wrong?

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Changing fertility rates challenge dystopian visions and UN projections about the future of our overcrowded planet

By Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson

She is a well-educated, professional woman, working in an office tower in central Nairobi, Kenya. Because of her status and education, the price required to marry her is bound to be high. Although dowries are often now paid in cash, she expects hers will be paid in the traditional method of cows and goats, and that the wedding will take place ...

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