The Case for Slowing Population Growth

34. Reduction of population growth.

We needed to reduce the population growth rate.

But the longer term social impact is a reduction in population growth.

Telehealth could slow the rate of cost increases.

The low road is what they describe as a path of immiserizing growth .

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

24. In the years when the country was signing agreements with the International Monetary Fund, GDP achieved minimal levels of growth or modest declines, e.g., a minimal increase of 0.27 in 1984 followed by negative growth of 2.6 in 1985.

Higher growth of the minimum wage than of the average wage.

Gross domestic product growth, estimated at 3 per cent, remained positive for the second year running, though lower than in 2003.

With a few exceptions, its growth rates have been below the growth performance of total goods exports.

The death isn't happening since we turned it off, we should have exponential growth.

18. The Comorian economy showed very modest real growth in 1996, growing by around 1 per cent as compared with 2.3 per cent in 1995, a drop of some 5 per cent over a two year period, whereas the population continued to grow at roughly 2.7 per cent per year.

Table 7. Growth rates of minimum wage and price indices

The emissions are likely to grow considerably, but less than the 30 per cent suggested in the quot with measures quot projection in the communication, owing to continued imports of electricity and lower economic growth.

Excluding China, there was a general slowdown in growth of service imports by developing countries, mirroring a lower growth rate in their exports.

The average annual growth rate was 2.6 , below the 3.1 of 1991 census.

Low and middle income families will benefit from a notable increase in disposable income.

The urban population growth rate in 1993 was less than that of 1980, yet still positive.

23. The information available for 1997 suggests that GDP growth will be under 1 per cent.

The Female Labour Force Participation while still quite low, is increasing. In 1981 it was 2.1 . It had moved up to 9.9 by 2001 2002.

Employment among older persons (age 60 or over) has shown a steady increase During the last decade it has been rising at an average annual rate of 3.3 a rate only slightly lower than that the rate of growth of the employed adult population (3.5 ).

During the first five months of 2004 the general minimum wage showed an average real increase of 2.7 .

Another two fifths of the world population is already advanced on the path to lower population growth, but the remaining fifth is still growing very rapidly, largely because it has barely begun the transition to low fertility.

This is attributable to the lower rate of increase in real GDP.

Equally, a reduction in interest rates frees up space in the budget for increases in social expenditure.

The low increase, which was less than the rate of natural population growth, reflected an observed tendency among parents to delay registration of newborn children.

Increases in production will probably lag somewhat behind increases in sales, as businesses respond at lower inventory levels than desired.

Other significant changes relate to income distribution, with average income rising and growing in the high end and the low end segments of the market.

The least urbanized continent, Africa, is due to experience the highest urban growth rate.

In the last two years, credit grew almost twice as fast as GDP, and total social financing grew even faster. Yet GDP growth slowed considerably from an annual average of 10.2 in 2002 2011 suggesting that China may be moving closer to a medium to low speed growth path.

As policymakers plan for the next five years, they should set China s growth targets at 7 7.5 , adjusting them within that range as changes in the international climate dictate. Such a growth target can help to stabilize employment, lower financial risk, and achieve the country s goal of doubling income by 2020.

However, the growth response in many developing countries was anaemic average annual per capita growth rose marginally above that of the 1980s, but remained well below that of the 1970s.

(a) The SMIG for a 48 hour week rose by an average of about 9.5 per cent a year between 1971 and 1991, i.e. much faster than the increase in prices

The overall rate of growth of prices of goods and services (in order to adjust the level of the minimum wage and prevent it decreasing in real value).

Since the introduction of the Building Independence Strategy in 1998, low income families have seen their after tax disposable incomes increase.

In the long run, it is reasonable to expect that revenue growth would be broadly consistent with economic growth and, as it stands, there is little acceleration on this front. Earnings can grow faster than revenues for a prolonged (though not indefinite) period, if companies cut costs or reduce investment a trend that would, over time, lower depreciation charges.

As a result of its economic performance and low population growth Colombia has enjoyed a rapid increase in per capita income, to about US 1,650 in 1995, even though this figure remains low in the Latin American context.

In February 2004, the first increase was implemented, raising the general minimum wage from 6.75 to 7.15 per hour in February 2005 it was raised to 7.45 per hour.

Because population is expected to increase substantially, especially in developing countries, the Programme of Action recognizes the usefulness of achieving a lower population growth as early as possible.

First and foremost, we need policies in low income countries that promote economic growth.

It also underestimated the devastating impact of HIV AIDS on the growth process.

The low rate of increase, well below the rate of natural population growth, could be attributed to socio economic difficulties, which delayed marriage and thereby lowered birth rates, combined with the high proportion of refugees living outside the country and hence unable to register new family members.

The rate of growth has increased significantly inflation has been reduced to a very low level and our situation outside the country has been strengthened.

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