control information available‚ but there was no aggressive effort to encourage the use of contraceptives and limitation of family size. By the late 1960s‚ many policy makers believed that the high rate of population growth was the greatest obstacle to economic development. The government began a massive program to lower the birth rate from forty-one per 1‚000 to a target of twenty to twenty-five per 1‚000 by the mid-1970s. The National Population Policy adopted in 1976 reflected the growing consensus among
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meaning in every 1000 working citizens‚ 168 elderly citizens are being raised. Here’s the main problem‚ as the age rate increases‚ birth rates are decreasing. This means that we are losing potential working citizens that are the foundations of the economic and social growth in Hong Kong. The Adults (Working Citizens) Whilst the “ageing population dilemma” serves as a major cause for poverty in Hong Kong nowadays‚ the government is putting their focus in the wrong spot. Whilst putting tackling
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What arguments are established in the Brundtland Report (1987) about ‘needs’ and ‘limitations’ in relation to “development”? Needs For Brundtland the most basic of all needs is livelihood: that is‚ employment. On this case‚ Brundtland emphasizes on the point that in order for poor households should be presented with sustainable work opportunities that allow them to be productive to an extent where they are able to meet minimum consumption standards. Brundtland also points out that “more food is
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1. (a) Explain how a firm operating in an oligopolistic market might attempt to increase its market share. Oligopoly: A market or an industry dominated by a few firms The key point in Oligopoly is that whether the number of the firms in the industry is big or small‚ a large proportion of the market/industry’s output is shared by just a small number of firms. The number of ‘a few’ firms that dominate the market varies depending on the sections of industry. For example 90% of petrol sold in a
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supported by the emerging markets of China‚ India‚ and Russia as growth relayed in the mature and almost saturated historical area (E.U.‚ U.S‚ and Japan). The increasing trends of international tourism‚ ’new rich people‘ and the favourable world economic growth‚ enabled the support of the luxury industry and the emergence of new customers and the subsequent trading areas. [...] [...] LV has already established 9 ’landmark boutiques’ in the three storeyed China World mall‚ and shall continue its
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PF/2762 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - A STRATEGY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF BANGLADESH INTRODUCTION 1. The post cold war era seemed to be indeed promising. The people found states with the aspirations of enhancing the individual and group security. Thus internal security is the prime responsibility of a nation state for the overall national security. “The former Soviet Union had to pay heavily for their ignorance of internal matters and giving priorities to ’Perestroica’ and other reforms”
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is still prevalent in many parts of our country. The adverse effects of this population explosion are many that are following namely‚ ➢ First of all when the population growth of a country overflows its utmost level then it hampers the economic development as well as progress of the country ‚since the country would not be able to meet the basis needs of the people because of this increasing population. ➢ Unemployment problem is also a by product of population explosion since its
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population related problems. Due to population explosion the Philippine economy is getting smaller and smaller and a hindrance to improve the way of living. How come there are countries with higher population than the Philippines have still high economic rate and rich in resources? Do the government been effective in controlling population growth? The significance of this problem to our present times is that the overly increasing population hinders our aspirations to become a globally competitive
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P7.6 Optimal Input Mix. The First National Bank received 3‚000 inquiries following the latest advertisement describing its 30-month IRA accounts in the Boston World‚ a local newspaper. The most recent ad in a similar advertising campaign in Massachusetts Business‚ a regional business magazine‚ generated 1‚000 inquiries. Each newspaper ad costs $500‚ whereas each magazine ad costs $125. A. Assuming that additional ads would generate similar response rates‚ is the bank running an optimal mix of newspaper
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into google.) And here is the population pyramid for England in the year 2000 (Find this population pyramid by searching England population pyramid year 2000 into google.) Because England is more educated we have learnt to have less babies for economic reasons‚ so our birth rate is going down. We are a richer
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