JAMB - Economics (2022 - No. 60)
Positive check as envisaged by Thomas Malthus can be prevented if
death rate is reduced
moral restraint abolished
more hospitals are built
there is natural calamities
Forklaring
The positive checks are: famine, war, disease, pestilence, floods and other natural calamities. To control over population resulting from the imbalance population and food supply, Malthus suggested preventive and positive checks.