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Malthusian trap, or low-level equilibrium trap, refers to a situation in which an economy, despite technological progress, fails to achieve a sustained increase in income per capita over the long run, and population remains confined to subsistence levels. This concept is based on Thomas Robert Malthus’s 1798 work. Malthus argued that an increase in agricultural productivity would not lead to a lasting improvement in living standards but would instead result in population growth. The theory rests

Demographic Transition Model (or theory) is an approach that explains the changes populations undergo over time. This process generally refers to the shift from a traditional demographic regime characterized by high birth and high death rates to a modern demographic regime in which births are deliberately controlled and death rates have declined. This transformation is typically associated with a society’s transition from an agricultural society to an urban and industrialized one, and is charact