Demographic Vocabulary Flashcards
Une crise démographique sur le point d’arriver, imminente
A looming demographic crisis
Mettre en place
Implement
La politique de l’enfant unique en Chine
The one-child policy in China
La part de la population
The share of the population
Ca a atteint un sommet il y a trois ans
It peaked three years ago
Améliorer
Improve
Promettre
Pledge
S’orienter vers
To head into
Une période d’acquisition des droits
A vesting period
Les prestations de retraites accumulées
The accrued pension benefits
Détourner
To divert
Un système de retraite par répartition
A pay-as-you-go pension scheme
Reprendre, prendre le contrôle/la direction
To take over
Un portefeuille d’actions
Asserts portfolio
Sur le point d’arriver (x3)
Impending
Looming
To be about to happen
Which policies to fight against The demographic crisis?
- a two child policy
- postpone Legal retirement age
- reform The fragmentéd pension system
- encourage families by offering incentives, paternity/maternity leave
- behave: The one child policy un china = one boy policy ==> dearth of girls for boys
Hypothèse fausse
Inaccurate assessment
Anti humanism: Thomas Malthus’s principle
Demographic would always expand exponentially while food output would Only grow arithmetically
Paul elrich - The population bomb
Warned of overpopulation and advocated that The us government adopt stringent population contrôle measures
L’influence
The clout
Aussi sinistre que
As grim as
La grossesse (x2)
- child-bearing
- pregnancy
L’éducation (des parents)
Child-rearing
des coûts considérables
The hefty costs
L’élimination progressive
The phasing-out
Paternité
Fatherhood
Point de vue
Standpoint
