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> Instead look at China, India, and the like for better examples. That would be China, which for most of its phase of economic hyper growth had a rather brutal
by microtherion 9y ago
> Instead look at China, India, and the like for better examples.
That would be China, which for most of its phase of economic hyper growth had a rather brutally enforced low fertility policy?
- lotsofpulp 9y agoIt takes time for children to grow up and affect economic growth, so it doesn't make sense to associate growth during the time the policy was in effect. There are also confounding variables, such as starting from a poorer position, which allows for more growth in the first place.
- coldtea 9y agoThere's a delay between adding such a law, and it having measurable demographic impact. That the law coincided with the growth is not the reason for growth: the prior population boom was the reason -or part of the reason- behind both the growth and the need for such a law. They didn't have an economic boost while suffering from the effects of sub-replacement/low fertility rates. Instead they've developed a huge population that was enough to fuel a huge growth, so much so that they had to slow it down.