India, even if it tries to mitigate the problem is unable to make effective use of population control measures for logistical reasons. Birth control measures do not reach effectively into the rural areas and the uneducated. This is also a problem for the Philippines for religious reasons, but I do not want to talk about that. Both are caught in a bind, with maybe the Philippines facing less severe consequences.
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When population increased and job opportunities were not there, the Singapore Government even drafted draconian measures with its 'stop at two' mantra. I believe punishment was also mandatory, such as priority for school registration for example. Later, the mantra was changed to tell people to have more children if they can afford to, meaning the rich can have more children, but not the poor. Now, the Singapore Government is throwing incentives for people to have more children, mostly favoring the rich like tax incentives, but such calls have fallen on deaf ears.
ReplyDeleteChina did the same with its one child policy when it was in its poverty- stricken years, which has been demolished as well, yet population growth has not expanded again as expected. The more progress in economic terms a country has reached, the more difficult it is to get people to marry and have children. It is a global issue.
I do not believe India can do that if it were to take a leaf from what Singapore did to curb its population growth. The poorer a country is, the more difficult it is to curb population growth. It is a rather unique feature of human nature.