ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes -One-Child Policy, Demographic Transition, Thomas Robert Malthus
29 Apr 2013
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Thus humans would face hunger, increased warfare, scarce resources, poverty: doubling time: a method to measure the period of time it takes for a population to double. Industrial nations like the us, japan, western europe have reached phase 3: eventually, when the growth rate is negative (less births than deaths), a country like japan reaches zero population growth (zpg) where the population replaces itself. Families that restricted themselves to one child were given free health care and land, free education for their children and preferential employment opportunities: those with more than one child were penalized by paying higher taxes and nonpreferential treatment. Shahidpur in punjab, india: between 1980 and 1990, the growth rate fell dramatically from 2% to 1. 4, this policy caused social controversies, especially in agricultural areas female infanticide was carried out as sons were preferred over daughters. In 1989 the policy was relaxed, and changed to one son or two child and this will end in 2015.
