Poverty and population growth are locked in a vicious cycle, where poverty restricts individuals' ability to break free from the cycle, while population growth strains resources. Discuss.

Worldbank, UNDP, OPHI define poverty as having multi-dimensional characters. In this context we analyse relation between poverty and population growth.

Poverty => Population growth

Poverty => lack of nutrition

=> lack of education

=> lack of access to services like birth control

=> higher rates of child mortality

(leading to parents having more children)

Population growth => Poverty

Very population growth leads to

This can be seen in NFHS-5 report where 5 states (UP, J, HP, Jharkhand) with high TFR also have highest incidents of multidimensional poverty under NHH days Index.

Even world bank population reports show highest population growth will be now seen in African countries.

Thus, this calls for policy makers to address both issues with convergent approach not working in silos.