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Differing policies toward international trade and investment in the course of economic development may have implications for the pressure of excess population within a country. The relative merits insofar as population pressures are concerned of an internationalist set of policies are contrasted with those of an inward-looking strategy of import substitution. Internationalist policies as featured in export-led growth strategies, seem to have distinct advantages over a strategy of import substitution provided that the industrialized countries of the world do not set arbitrary limits to the volume of imports from the developing world.
I am indebted to Shanti S. Tangri for long and insightful discussions on the interactions between population pressures and economic development as well as for comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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Gray, H.P. (1989). “Population Drag” and the Role of the International Sector. In: Wenig, A., Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Demographic Change and Economic Development. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83789-0_6
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