Fodder lobby
Sir: An affluent country with half its population under fifteen years of age would I think be hard put to it to find the resources fdr educating and providing employment for such a high proportion of children and young people. Developing countries today are in such a situation, 30 per cent of their population have to support 70 per cent, just about the reverse of the situation in western countries.
Their situation came about because the western powers after the last war mounted a massive and successful programme for the elimination of malaria in Afro-Asian coun- tries and because other advances in medical science were also applied, hence many of the national controllers of population growth in the developing countries have been removed.
Whether or not the gap between rich and poor countries is widening seems to me an ir- relevancy. 'The problem which confronts us' is whether or not we are going to shoulder our responsibility for having helped place developing countries in the situation in which they now find themselves, and help them solve the problem of food, education and employment for their citizens.
Alas I did not gain much help on how this can be done from Mr 'Cranley Onslow's article!
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