[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Religious orthodoxy, low literacy, and unrelentingly high birth rates are tremendous drags on economic growth.

There remains a widely perceived notion — still commonly held within intellectual, academic, and policy circles in the West and elsewhere — that “Muslim” societies are especially resistant to embarking upon the path of demographic and familial change that has transformed population profiles in Europe, North America, and other “more developed” areas (un terminology). But such notions speak to a bygone era; they are utterly uninformed by the important new demographic realities that reflect today’s life patterns within the Arab world, and the greater Islamic world as well.

http://www.hoover.org/research/ferti...e-muslim-world