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On 11/07/06, Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you saying the poor should be absolved from
> showing restraint when it comes to having children,
> just because they are poor? Isn't that
> counter-intuitive?
There's no question of "restraint". People have fewer kids when they
become a bit affluent (or middle-class enough) to ensure the children
they have survive, when their womenfolk get access to education, and
when they aren't so blown-out poor that every pair of hands is merely
an asset in the family from even the age of four! No wonder they say
"economic development is the best contraceptive"! And this has worked
in Goa, no matter what the Pope feels about it. People just begin to
have fewer kids.
Demography is based on the premise that "your (black or brown or poor)
kids are bad, but mine are good". No wonder Singapore can think of a
subsidy for graduates to have babies! No wonder that nobody gets the
brainwave of the need to shift people from population-surplus areas of
the globe to population-deficit areas, as Europe did with huge
landmasses in the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, and tried to do
the same in Asia and Africa too.
> It's funny you should say that Malthus has been proven
> wrong. Unfortunately it is countries like India and
> China that ultimately prove him right. Despite GDP
> growth rates in the two digits, even Thomas Friedmann
> has had to acknowledge that the vast majority of rural
> India and China is desperately poor. Can you imagine
> why? Because wealth cannot be created at the speed of
> light. Wealth generation to bring so many into the
> fold will take several revolutions of trickle
> economics.
There's another factor here. People can't eat GDP. Also, with a badly
undervalued rupee, no matter how much India exports, it's never going
to be able to improve the poorest of the poor. We can only do that by
playing around with statistics ;-)
FN
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