Tuesday
Nov012011
Financial incentive to increase the population
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 9:24AMDay of 5 Billion on 11 July 1987 led to the establishment of World Population Day as an annual event to mark the significance of population trends to our planet. Just 24 year later this week we marked the world's population reaching 7,000,000,000 7 billion actions.
Loosing population
Fascinating contrast between the 1978 one child policy to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China challenged by supporting their populations vs. in 2008 government financial incentive plan of €120 ($166) per month for 10 year for the family to have a third child. This represents more than 1/3 of the average monthly income to the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.