Not really. It is more because of rampant corruption.
US has a large population, and they are now going through
recession, yet the government is able to squeeze out handouts for
those who are jobless.
Angola has a so-so population ( though much larger than SG ),
the country is one of African's biggest petrol and diamond
producer, yet many people there are starving to death. Btw, it is
one of the countries where I dare say the government is even richer
than our government here.
Not really too. Corruption is always a problem. As always
greed takes the better of a man.
In any case if the population increase there will be a point
where resources and food will become scarce. So population in the
long run still have to be controlled. But on an expansionist type
of economics I doubt it.