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Population Policies

Population Policies

Governments have tried to influence population growth, but have nearly always been populationist Only recently have we seen strongly antenatal. policies adopted by capitalist Japan and communist China, as well as by India Pakistan Sri Lanka, Korea, Taiwan, Egypt and eastern European countries.
Modern states, especially totalitarian states, can have a powerful influence over population growth, both through direct measures to affect fertility, mortality and migration, and indirectly Through their general policy, especially the economic policy. Population policies tend to be most effective when they conform to general policies, but it is never easy to assess the real effectiveness of direct measures
Measures favoring fertility include family allowances, marriage loans, prevention of sale of birth control appliances, illegality of abortion, and ante-and post natal care while anti natal measures comprise the legalization of abortion, birth control propaganda and sterilization France has adopted most measures to favor fertility, in an effort to
offset its tendency to decline, but we cannot be sure whether they are responsible for the recent high level of fertility or whether this is a response to economic expansion - perhaps a little of both Japan, on the other hand is an excellent example of a country with an anti- natal policy Populationist during the Second World War, Japan found herself suddenly reduced to her own frontiers and forced to harbor her returning soldiers and colonizers Faced with Intense overpopulation, Japan promulgated the “law of eugenic protection” of 28th. June1948, which legalized sterilization and abortion under certain conditions and encouraged contraception. Abortions have been especially numerous and in 1955 reached a peak of 50.2 per thousand women of childbearing age. Between 1947 and 1957 the birth rate descended from 34.3 per thousand to 17.3, and it now remains low. The death rate also declined sharply, and so...