Managing Population Growth - Case Studies

Question 1

What is the case study for managing population growth?

Answer 1

China.

Indonesia.

Question 2

China has a strict…

Answer 2

Birth control programme.

Question 3

China has the largest what?

Answer 3

Population.

Over 1.3 billion.

Question 4

Name an important policy China follow?

Answer 4

‘One-child policy’.

Question 5

When was the ‘one-child policy’ introduced?

Answer 5

1979.

Question 6

The ‘one-child policy’ strongly encourages what?

Answer 6

Couples to have only 1 child.

Question 7

Couples who have one child are given what?

Answer 7

Benefits.
Better housing.
Free education.

Question 8

In china what are one of the benefits a couple is given?

Answer 8

Longer maternity leave.

Question 9

Couples who don’t only have one child are what?

Answer 9

Don’t get any benefits .

Fined part of their income.

Question 10

In some rural areas what is allowed?

Answer 10

A second child if the first is a girl or has a physical disability.

Question 11

Why is the rural exception allowed?

Answer 11

Because children are needed to work on farms in rural areas.

Question 12

What is another exception in China?

Answer 12

If one of the parents has a disability or if both parents are only children.

Question 13

Why is a second child allowed if one parent has a disability or if both parents are only children?

Answer 13

So there is enough people to look after the parents at old age.

Question 14

The ‘one-child policy’ has prevented up to how many births?

Answer 14

400 million.

Question 15

How much has the fertility rate dropped by due to the ‘one-child policy’?

Answer 15

From 5.7 in 1970.

To 1.8 today.

Question 16

Define fertility rate

Answer 16

The average number of children a woman will have in her life.

Question 17

What was also another effective method in China?

Answer 17

The older policies.

Leaving longer gaps between children.

Question 18

What does China’s ‘one-child policy’ help towards?

Answer 18

Sustainable development.

Fewer resources been used up.

Question 19

Who else has tried to tackle the problems of rapid population growth?

Answer 19

Indonesia.

Question 20

Indonesia is a country made up of…

Answer 20

Thousands of islands.

Question 21

Where does it place in the largest world population?

Answer 21

4th.

Over 240 million.

Question 22

The population of Indonesia isn’t what?

Answer 22

Distributed evenly.

Question 23

Where do most people live in Indonesia?

Answer 23

Island of Java.

Around 130 million.

Question 24

What problems has this lead to in Indonesia?

Answer 24

Social and economic problems.

Question 25

Give examples of the problems in Indonesia?

Name 3.

Answer 25

Lack of adequate services/housing.
Unemployment.
Poverty.

Question 26

What did the Indonesian Government start? and when?

Answer 26

Policy called Transmigration policy.

1960’s.

Question 27

What was the Transmigration policy’s aim?

Answer 27

To reduce the impacts of population growth.

Question 28

In Indonesia what have millions of people done?

Answer 28

Moved from the densely populated islands to the less densely populated islands.

Question 29

Name a densely populated island and a less densely populated island?

Answer 29

Java.

Sumatra.

Question 30

Not everybody who moved in Indonesia escaped what?

Answer 30

The poverty.

Question 31

How did people not escape poverty in Indonesia?

Answer 31

Lack of skills to farm.

Land was poor to farm.

Question 32

What was another problem from people moving in Indonesia?

Answer 32

They moved to land that was already occupied by Native people.
This created conflict.

Question 33

Indonesia’s Transmigration policy did not what?

Answer 33

Help towards sustainable development because it only reduces the impacts of population growth.