RE: Controlling Our Numbers

Still, comparing the living condition in the Western world to ours, we would choose theirs over ours...

I know, you would, and that's probably because you don't see the ugly side of it (as it's not in popular shiny magazines or even less in some news), but the side that people of the western world are facing every day more and more, even though the majority still turn their heads to the other side or close their eyes in denial as the actual truth is too hard to swallow.
(Some, like i.e. Hungary are slowly coming to their senses, although I'm afraid, for some, it might be too late to repair all the damage already done.)

However, a better economy doesn't have anything to do with population control, but it has a lot to do with corruption, overall population inequality (in the sense of fostering significant class differences in both power and money), imposed dictatorship (regardless of its type or how well it is masked behind some shiny words, like "democracy" is, or any other truth-obscuring phrases or slogans), all of which bring to leading positions more or less uneducated people, non-experts in any field that would help economy prosperity to the country and its people, as most often those leaders are nothing else but gang experts who gather around them only those similar to themselves who will support them either because they are also involved in various corruption and other crimes or out of pure fear.

And in that sense, if the people of your country have a genuine desire for prosperity, a better and sustained economy, it would be way wiser to direct your focus and energy towards solving this issue than imposing some birth control, as otherwise in a very short time (just a couple of decades) you will have no people to fight against those criminals in the leading positions who will be just deeper rooted, with a much wider network of the same or similar to them, strongly controlled and unimaginably connected.
Mark my words!