what are the causes behind this poverty? As we find in India, it has too many people and too few developed resources. The highly developed or industrialized societies can afford population explosions, for they are able to pay for their massive imports of food from agricultural countries with their exports of manufactured goods, and also they have mechanized their own agriculture to produce more food. India cannot expect to feed its alarmingly growing population, for it has an overwhelmingly agricultural economy with yields amongst the lowest in the world.