Essays on Child Policy

Background

China is the world’s greatest country when it comes to population. It is located in the South Eastern parts of Asia being surrounded by other countries such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan, North and South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is the largest Asian country by land area. The most recent surveys show that China has approximately 1.4 billion (World Bank n.p.). Note that the current world population is approximate 7 billion, which means that for approximately 6 people, 1 of them is a Chinese. Interestingly, this startlingly huge population size could have been bigger ...

Demographic movements accentuate the fact that current and future trends in the social, political, and economic fronts are directly affected by the issue of an aging population. It is a reality for people regardless of race or culture. However, the rate at which demographic shifts differs in countries worldwide will have significant effects on developed and developing countries when saddled by a high number of ageing population. This is because in a typical developing country, baby boomers opt to delay having babies or starting their own families as they focus more on themselves and career advancement. The same problem ...

Since the beginning of the feminist movement, the idea that culture might influence the development of gender roles has been quite well-documented in the literature (Best and Williams). Gender is also something of a sticky philosophical issue in and of itself; the definition and the very idea of gender has been shaken since the inclusion of transgender people into the umbrella of protection offered by the queer and feminist movements as a whole. While gender used to refer to the idea of one’s birth sex, today, gender is widely accepted as an identification or alignment, while sex is ...

(Diapers and Wipes for Babies) In the present rapidly changing business environment, companies have to implement different changes and innovations to remain competitive. Such changes may refer to all the companies’ operation. For example, it may be necessary to add new products to the general product list of the organization in order to remain profitable and expand presence in the market of the certain country or region. As such, in the healthcare industry the company can develop some new products that relate to the consumer healthcare goods. This essay is devoted to the opportunity for GlaxoSmithKline to start manufacturing ...

Question 1.

Under demographic transition theory, countries transition from high death and high birth rates to low death and low birth rates, as the country’s economy develops. The transition of death and birth rates is divided into four stages:

Pre-Industrial Stage

Societies have high death and birth rates in the first stage of pre-industrial stage. As both death and birth rates are high, population growth is slow and majority of the population is young as despite several births, few manage to live for long. In the pre-industrial society, children tend to operate as an economic benefit for the families, which reinforces the ...

China and India have demonstrated trend toward Western- style consumption over the last decade. Given the emphasis on the youth market in the U.S. over the last 60 years ( since the baby boom), what can you suggest for marketers in these youth-oriented consumer economies ( China and India)? Given on the subject of globalism, it is very common nowadays to see Western influenced services or goods around the world, and this have also penetrated the East Asia market most noticeably in China and India. It is known that China is one of a stronghold in terms of labor market, ...

Question No. 1

Tragedy of the commons, as envisioned by Hardin, is the infinite freedom of the people to use or make use of the finite free resources of the world. The unchecked and wanton use by the people of these free resources results in a tragedy, according to Hardin, because eventually such use will overwhelm the resources themselves. A simple, but graphic example used by the author to illustrate this point is a pasture that is open to all for use. If one or several persons use this pasture to graze their animals this would not pose harm to the pasture, ...

Resource Curse

Resource curse refers to a country with a wealth of non-renewable resources and hence, experience stagnation in development or even experience economic contraction (Titon par 1). It transpires when a nation starts focusing on one solitary industry such as mining neglecting other major sectors.

Reasons for Its Occurrence, the Most Important and Why

When a country focuses on one sector such as mining and relies on it entirely for their economic developments neglecting other sectors such as agriculture it creates an economic gap. Some of the causes include the Dutch disease, this is the major cause of resource curse, since, naturally non-renewable goods have less competition in the ...