01606cas a2200229 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011533 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 9781616353100 0145-1707 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept. Finance and Development, December 1972. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1972. 1 online resource (68 pages) Finance and Development <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper describes what the limits to growth are. The paper highlights that many critical variables in global society-particularly population and industrial production-have been growing at a constant percentage rate so that, by now, the absolute increase each year is extremely large. Such increases will become increasingly unmanageable unless deliberate action is taken to prevent such exponential growth. The paper also underscores that physical resources-particularly cultivable land and nonrenewable minerals-and the earth's capacity to 'absorb' pollution are finite. Mode of access: Internet Finance and Development; Finance and Development ; No. 0009/004 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/022/0009/004/022.0009.issue-004-en.xml IMF e-Library