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Similar to other developed nations, Singapore has been experiencing a dwindling birth rate and ageing population. >> And area where other developing countries
by dstala 5y ago
Similar to other developed nations, Singapore has been experiencing a dwindling birth rate and ageing population.
>> And area where other developing countries like India are in position of advantage, but need to channel right.
- oblio 5y agoWhat do you mean?
- cyberpsybin 5y agoIndia is right now young and poor. If 3 decades it will be old and poor. Cannot escape population explosion consequences.
- newyankee 5y agoIt may not be rich like first world, but reaching Mexico level per capita income and a safety net for basic needs + education and basic healthcare is possible within 3 decades. Corruption is reducing, infrastructure is being built like China of 2000s (almost) and a connected world is a very different place from what was possible 20 years back.
- cute_boi 5y ago"Corruption is reducing" is outright lie. Its increasing and the way Indians are seeking west life it is expected increase more. https://tradingeconomics.com/india/corruption-rank https://tradingeconomics.com/india/corruption-rank These days people want luxurious life. Those days are simply gone where people would be satisfy wit basic needs + education. And with the advent of social media like facebook/instagram where people tends to show off a lot this will make the situation more worst.
- xNeil 5y agoIndia's corruption rank was 94 before Modi came, and is currently 85, which is the highest it has been since Modi came. It has reduced quite a bit I'd say.
- nmridul 5y agoNot perfect, but i am seing improvements as more government services are moving online. One example is passport. Previously it took few months and you had to bribe multiple offices to get a passport faster. Now you get passport within a week. And the only physical link left is the police verification. Vehicle registration, transfer etc also moved online recently and reduced the scope of bribe there. Land registration and records are also in the process of moving online. But on the other side, corruption at political level etc are not reducing .
- unmole 5y ago> population explosion The 70's called. They want their boogeyman back.
- Radim 5y agoWhich one? Global cooling? Or peak oil? 70s were full of boogeymen. Not that other decades were / are much better. The methods shift, the profit stays.
- dhruval 5y agoIndian fertility rates are also at near replacement levels. In many states below. It is not just a developed country issue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_territories_of_India_by_fertility_rate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...
- cheesecake_luvr 5y agoCorruption will hold back India for at least another 20 years from achieving what Singapore has. Probably a lot more, and maybe never.
- ngc248 5y agoWow .... The city of Bangalore in India is bigger than singapore. let us at least consider scale while comparing countries. Comparing India and singapore is like comparing an ant to an elephant.
- blackoil 5y agoWith right immigration policies developed nations can manage it. You can import educated/productive individuals from India with limited liability for decades.
- golemiprague 5y agoWhy would you want to "manage" it, what's wrong with dwindling population? You can use robots or foreign workers for limited time to do some jobs if you have a shortage but eventually it will balance itself, the same way it was before the growth of population.
- tenpies 5y agoAt what point do we just admit that this is being done intentionally by governments? The easiest way to tackle climate change is to drastically reduce the population. Short of genocide - which only authoritarian governments can pull off - the easiest way is to set up an environment that puts as many barriers as possible on reproduction. Make children extremely expensive so that only the elites can have multiple children. Inflate the cost of everything so it's impossible for a single-worker household to survive, and the cost of a third mouth to feed/educate/raise prohibitive. Then sit back and wait a generation or two. It's China's one child policy, but applied globally, through economics and social dynamics. /tin foil hat off, but I also wouldn't entirely be surprised if there's a meeting precisely on this at Davos every year.
- beebeepka 5y agoI am all for reducing human population but your proposal isn't all that different from genocide and slavery. I. Not looking forward to the day when laws will say what someone is allowed to do based on their wealth.
- arvinsim 5y ago> It's China's one child policy, but applied globally, through economics and social dynamics. Ironically, they repealed that policy because it was having a negative effect. > Make children extremely expensive so that only the elites can have multiple children. Another irony since it's the elites that tend to not have many children, not the poor.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoFunnily enough, childbirth is intrinsically expensive for a woman in terms of costs to their health and time, so simply giving women financial independence and birth control methods (IUD/pills/condoms) will drive down the birth rate regardless of other variables.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoFalse, you need more workers to implement green energy and figure out geo engineering.