Are the population policies of India and China responsible for the fertility decline?

Diamond‐Smith, Nadia; Potts, Malcolm

doi:10.1080/00207233.2010.481890

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“…A cross-country study of the relationship between fertility decline and national population control policies in India and China concludes that governmental mandates were not a major determining factor. 32 Through comparing the Chinese birth control program with other socioeconomic factors, a new meticulous, demographical analysis concludes that the family-planning policies have played only a minor role in China's transition to a low fertility rate. 33 Indeed, fertility rates have been in steady decline in China since the late 1960s, long before the draconian one-child policy was introduced.…”

Section: The Nature Of the Population Problem And The Effectiveness Omentioning

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China’s One-Child Policy, a Policy without a Future

Nie¹

2014

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

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The Chinese Communist Party government has been forcefully promoting its jihua shengyu (planned fertility) program, known as the "one-child policy," for more than three decades. A distinctive authoritarian model of population governance has been developed. A pertinent question to be asked is whether China's one-child policy and the authoritarian model of population governance have a future. The answer must be no; they do not. Although there are many demographic, economic, and social rationales for terminating the one-child policy, the most fundamental reason for opposing its continuation is drawn from ethics. The key ethical rationale offered for the policy is that it promotes the common social good, not only for China and the Chinese people but for the whole human family. The major irony associated with this apparently convincing justification is that, although designed to improve living standards and help relieve poverty and underdevelopment, the one-child policy and the application of the authoritarian model have instead caused massive suffering to Chinese people, especially women, and made them victims of state violence. A lesson from China--one learned at the cost of individual and social suffering on an enormous scale--is that an essential prerequisite for the pursuit of the common good is the creation of adequate constraints on state power.

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Section: The Nature Of the Population Problem And The Effectiveness Omentioning

confidence: 99%

China’s One-Child Policy, a Policy without a Future

Nie¹

2014

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

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Rethinking the effectiveness of family planning in Africa

Togman

2017

J Pop Research

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Demographics and aggregate household saving in Japan, China, and India

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Lugauer

Mark

2017

Journal of Macroeconomics

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We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving patterns over time across the three countries. In the model simulations, the growing number of retirees suppresses Japanese saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving rates for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts lower saving rates in Japan and China.

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Are the population policies of India and China responsible for the fertility decline?

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

China’s One-Child Policy, a Policy without a Future

China’s One-Child Policy, a Policy without a Future

Rethinking the effectiveness of family planning in Africa

Demographics and aggregate household saving in Japan, China, and India

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