This paper has attempted to show that world and Philippine demographic trends, as well as peculiar Philippine conditions such as emigration of young professionals and of whole families, rule out population control as a quick-fix solution to poverty. On the contrary, any economic, social or political policy proposed to solve poverty should take advantage of, rather than suppress, our abundant human resources. As Dr. Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Prize winner in economic science, explains, “human capital,” which refers to the skills, education, health and training of individuals, comprises around 80% of the wealth of advanced countries, and hence “can be neglected [only] at a country´s peril.”