POLD89H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natalism, Global City, Debt Relief
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Week 5 old governance vs new governance: the state population issues. Wealthier people get, the less children they have. 10 countries with the slowest growing population have had negative population growth. The problem with people fast growing populations have greater number of younger than older slow growing, negative growth populations have a greater number of older than younger people. One child policy: set of regulations governing gamily size and spacing of children in cases where second child is permitted. Pronatalist: governments that want to promote birth and population growth opposed to restricting birth. Population density: measure of how many people are in a given mile or kilometer. Immigrant receiving societies: united states, russia, germany, ukraine, Immigration corridor: heavily travelled route taken by people immigrating to one country to another. Immigrants bring benefits to receiving countries, like diversity, new ways of life, new skills, and reinforcements for the workplace.