>>1281827I get the rationale but the science says otherwise (opposite actually).
The only way to decrease population growth in the 2. and 3. world is to make living conditions better. Remember that the shittiest places on earth are with few exeptions the places that have the highest birth rates (see link)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-population-growthPic is the Demographic transitional model. If you haven't seen it before, it's basically the pattern of population growth that countries tend to follow, based of birth-rates and death-rates