Volume 33, Number 11 · June 26, 1986
Too Many People?
By Jonathan Lieberson
Are World Population Trends A Problem?
edited, with an introduction by Ben Wattenberg, by Karl Zinsmeister
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 53 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Between 1949 and 1973 the population of China increased 64 percent and today it is over one billion. The Deng regime claims that high rates of population growth, lower rates of death caused by modern medicines, and a generally poor and badly educated population have forced China to spend too much on housing, food, and employment. The resources drained for these purposes could be used, Chinese officials argue, to develop and 'modernize' the country. To arrest population growth, the regime has created a program of mass 'ideological education' and a system of economic incentives to encourage people to have fewer children (in many cases, according to guidelines set by the Ministry of Health, just one).
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