Slowing population growth can have broad benefits for society, including enhancing the many ways that older citizens enrich our communities, write The University of Queensland Jane O'Sullivan and ADB's Dr Susann Roth
This is highly debatable.
China has rolled back its one-child policy and is now incentivizing population growth.
Singaporeans are not replacing themselves at the desired rate, and hence they have to import foreigners into their markets to fill in positions.
China has rolled back its one-child policy and is now incentivizing population growth.
Singaporeans are not replacing themselves at the desired rate, and hence they have to import foreigners into their markets to fill in positions.
Canada, Australia and Newzealand invite immigrants to fill in their countries because they have low population density figures compared to other countries having a large landmass.
Greying of Japan and some European Nations has caused a demographic crisis which might lower economic growth in the long run
But, at the same time, they are countries in South Asia, and probably the stand-off case in Africa is that of Egypt, where population size has created tremendous pressure on resource sharing, employment generation, access to health care and education, energy production,
food security, and this arguably jointly leading to increased poverty count, and reduced economic emancipation.
Bangladesh is a successful model of an outward paying developing economy which has done well by controlling its population size over the years.
Many other examples exist.
Many other examples exist.
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