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Population, angels and demons
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Monday, July 19, 2010 |
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There is much interest in the population question after decades. When malthus made his predictions, little did he know about the fact that innovations in technology would help the world cope with a higher population. The anti population drive in India in the 70's had bitter consequences, writes Renuka Bisht in The Financial Express. |
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World elderly population to double by 2050, India's to quadruple: US Census prediction
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 |
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India's older population is projected to quadruple by mid-century, while that of the world is expected to triple, the US Census Bureau has said. In its latest report, the Census Bureau said the world's 65-and-older population is projected to increase from 516 million in 2009 to 1.53 billion in 2050, reports Indian Express. |
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Unwelcome immigrants return home to fuel the economies
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Saturday, February 28, 2009 |
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Kauffman Foundation released a report by a team led by Vivek Wadhwa on immigration, which shows how much the world has changed. While anti-immigrant groups in the US increase their xenophobic tirades against foreigners, tens of thousands of skilled workers are returning home to countries like India and China and fueling economic growth there, reports US-India Friendship Network. |
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Migrants indicate economic hope
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Sunday, March 23, 2008 |
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The Indian Railways sells 6.4 billion tickets annually. Assuming a third are commuters, this means roughly four journeys per person per year in a nation of 1.1 billion people. We are a nation on the move, especially the poor in search of jobs and a better life. Our cities are becoming more cosmopolitan and an Indian identity is being forged, which will increasingly trump regional identities. In a competitive world, it takes maturity and luck to realise that immigrants make a society successful, writes Gurcharan Das in the Times of India |
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The Population Myth
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Published on :
Friday, October 26, 2007 |
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Government authorities insult us when they say that India's problem is too many people. On the contrary, India's problem is an inept and bloated state. It does not allow free markets that would enable the entrepreneurship and creativity natural to all humans. In short, the cause of India's poverty is not its people, but its system of government, writes Amit Varma in the Mint |
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The Myth of Over Population - new report
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
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On World Population Day, July 11th, the UNFPA will call for men to be more involved in family planning and women's reproductive healthcare. Underlying this fine-sounding campaign is the UN Population Fund's belief that we must stabilise and decrease world population in order to save the planet and promote economic growth. But the UNFPA and other alarmists provide no credible evidence to justify this, according to a new paper from the Sustainable Development Network by Professor Nicholas Eberstadt, an expert in population and demography |
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Population policy triggers protests in rural China
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Friday, June 01, 2007 |
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In order to meet targets for allowable births, ocal officials in the southwestern Chinese province of Guangxi have pursued a harsh campaign aimed at enforcing China's population planning laws. They threatened to demolish homes to make residents cough up fines demanded for excess children. Recently citizen anger boiled over. Thousands of angry rural residents took to the streets, smashing cars and sacking government offices. The vicious nature of the Guangxi enforcement campaign is all the more striking because it directly conflicts with the orders of China's top leaders, writes Carl Minzner |
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Open borders for jobs
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
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The arrest of a MP for attempting to smuggle out two persons has thrown the arc lights on why people can’t move freely worldwide. It’s time workers from poorer countries — low-skilled carpenters and masons or high-skilled doctors and software professionals — are given easier access. However, India too stands accused of refusing to show the same magnanimity to people from its poorer neighbours. The Indian legal and audit services sector hasn’t been opened up because of pressure from domestic professionals, writes Seetha in The Telegraph |
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High cost of child birth: China needs a relook at one-child policy
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
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Most Chinese aren’t too happy with the country’s strict one-child policy, and some of them had found a relatively easy way of getting round it: having their babies in Hong Kong. This confers Hong Kong citizenship on the babies, with its accompanying advantages. However, the Hong Kong authorities have suddenly tried to put a brake on this practice by raising hospital fees for mainland mothers, writes Neha Sahay in The Telegraph. |
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China scrambles for stability as its population ages
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
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China is aging fast with number of retirees, 60 and older, touching 200 million by 2015. About a third of the population, around 430 million, by 2050. That increase would place enormous demands on the finances and could pose a threat to the economy. The one-child policy means that, beginning with the current generation of young adults, couples will face the difficult task of caring for four parents through old age. The ratio of workers to retired people will decline from about six to one now to about two to one by 2040. Howard W. French analyses the situation in The New York Times. |
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