Managing Population - Case Studies
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- Created on: 09-04-14 10:37
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- Managing Population Growth - Case Studies
- China
- Largest Population in the world - 1.3 billion
- One Child Policy introduced in 1979
- Couples were strongly encouraged to only have one baby
- Helps towards sustainable development - fewer resources being used
- Incentives
- Longer maternity leave
- Better Housing
- Free Education
- 10% fines for a second child
- Have to be married (men 28 women 25) and apply for a baby licence
- Effectiveness
- Prevented 400 million births
- Fertility rate from 5.7 to 1.8
- Was not just due to abortions being made
- Older policies were more effective - fewer children = more wealth
- Rule Change
- Rural areas - if first one was a girl or had physical disabilities
- One parent had a disability or both were only children
- Indonesia
- Thousands of islands; 4th largest population in the world - 240 million
- Not evenly distributed - 130 million on Java leads to problems
- Policies
- Government introduced transmigration policy - 1960
- Hasn't helped - Reduces the impact not the growth
- Millions of people moved from densely populated Java to Sumatra less densely populated
- Effectiveness
- Millions moved - still not evenly distributed
- Not all escaped poverty - no skills or land was too poor
- Land was already occupied - conflict was created by natives
- China
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