Managing Population Growth - Case Studies Flashcards
What is the case study for managing population growth?
China.
Indonesia.
China has a strict…
Birth control programme.
China has the largest what?
Population.
Over 1.3 billion.
Name an important policy China follow?
‘One-child policy’.
When was the ‘one-child policy’ introduced?
1979.
The ‘one-child policy’ strongly encourages what?
Couples to have only 1 child.
Couples who have one child are given what?
Benefits.
Better housing.
Free education.
In china what are one of the benefits a couple is given?
Longer maternity leave.
Couples who don’t only have one child are what?
Don’t get any benefits .
Fined part of their income.
In some rural areas what is allowed?
A second child if the first is a girl or has a physical disability.
Why is the rural exception allowed?
Because children are needed to work on farms in rural areas.
What is another exception in China?
If one of the parents has a disability or if both parents are only children.
Why is a second child allowed if one parent has a disability or if both parents are only children?
So there is enough people to look after the parents at old age.
The ‘one-child policy’ has prevented up to how many births?
400 million.
How much has the fertility rate dropped by due to the ‘one-child policy’?
From 5.7 in 1970.
To 1.8 today.
Define fertility rate
The average number of children a woman will have in her life.
What was also another effective method in China?
The older policies.
Leaving longer gaps between children.
What does China’s ‘one-child policy’ help towards?
Sustainable development.
Fewer resources been used up.
Who else has tried to tackle the problems of rapid population growth?
Indonesia.
Indonesia is a country made up of…
Thousands of islands.
Where does it place in the largest world population?
4th.
Over 240 million.
The population of Indonesia isn’t what?
Distributed evenly.
Where do most people live in Indonesia?
Island of Java.
Around 130 million.
What problems has this lead to in Indonesia?
Social and economic problems.
Give examples of the problems in Indonesia?
Name 3.
Lack of adequate services/housing.
Unemployment.
Poverty.
What did the Indonesian Government start? and when?
Policy called Transmigration policy.
1960’s.
What was the Transmigration policy’s aim?
To reduce the impacts of population growth.
In Indonesia what have millions of people done?
Moved from the densely populated islands to the less densely populated islands.
Name a densely populated island and a less densely populated island?
Java.
Sumatra.
Not everybody who moved in Indonesia escaped what?
The poverty.
How did people not escape poverty in Indonesia?
Lack of skills to farm.
Land was poor to farm.
What was another problem from people moving in Indonesia?
They moved to land that was already occupied by Native people.
This created conflict.
Indonesia’s Transmigration policy did not what?
Help towards sustainable development because it only reduces the impacts of population growth.
