SOC 0007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tax Bracket
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Lecture notes chapter 3 world population and global inequality. Malthus theory: that the excess population will die off but it didn"t happen. Migration is in and out of the country. When fertility is high and mortality is high, rate of population growth is slow. When fertility is high and mortality is low, there is population explosion fertility and mortality determine population trend. China has a one-child policy (each couple can"t have more than 1 child in urban areas or 2 children in rural areas: india has no limit on the number of children women can have. It is in the best interest of the world for the rate of natural increase to stabilize. For 200 million women contraception is not available. There is variability of population growth in different nations in the world. America has benefited from immigration because most of the people coming over are young, and they become part of the economy.
