January Archive


Vanishing Females in Vietnam

Vincenzina Santoro | 18 January 2010
Is Vietnam heading down the same rocky road as China by allowing sex-selective abortion?

China wakes up to consequences of one-child policy

Michael Cook | 14 January 2010
The penny has finally dropped for the Chinese government. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has admitted that gender imbalance because of its draconian one-child policy is a serious problem. In a report in the Chinese newspaper Global Times, demographers Wang Guangzhou and Wang Yuesheng sketched some of China’s intractable problems.

Russia’s brief burst of optimism

Michael Cook | 13 January 2010
With a population of 141.9 million, Russia is registering a growth for the first time since 1995, says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. For the past five years the number of Russian deaths had declined, while births had risen. Life-expectancy is about to reach the age of 69.

Boris Johnson on over-population

Michael Cook | 13 January 2010

Gee, I missed this one from the hoo-haa surrounding the Copenhagen Summit. Sorry…


Bangladesh endorses one-child policy

Michael Cook | 05 January 2010
Bangladesh is going to introduce a voluntary "one couple, one child" population planning policy by 2015 to curb its growing population.

John Lennon on the population bomb

Michael Cook | 05 January 2010
Arguments from authority are very weak indeed, but when the authority is John Lennon, what the heck.

 
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