International Series Seven Billion World Population, Celebration or Warning? (part 2)
The United Nations announced that the World Population reached at 7 billion on the Halloween Day in 2011. We celebrate warmly the birth of new babies and wish for their health and future happiness.
1. How many population this Globe can accommodate? ( Posted in Part 1 )
2. Aging population in industrialized countries with les working forces
There are 3 aspects on the population issue in the World.
First, the population growth rate is static or negative in most industrialized countries, while the number of aged people are increasing with longer life expectancy. As a result, the medicare and welfare or pension costs steadily increase while working forces, therefore, the amount of tax revenues decrease.
Most industrialized countries such as Japan, U.S. and EU, are facing economic and financial difficulties, especially after the Lehmann shock in September, 2008, with the burden of huge Government debt. Their financial ability to carry out policy measures is limited. On top of it, they face such constraints as global warming and, unpredictable sever natural disasters here and there so that we can not expect high economic growth as before. How far, then, they could continue to provide Official Development Aid to developing countries, which may have facilitated population explosion in Africa and other developing countries. At least, we can say at this stage that they are not able to allot development aid as before.
3. Emergence of mega-population economies (To be posted in Part 3)
4. Lost Decade in Africa (To be posted in Part 4)
5. Need for a fundamental change in the Official Development model (To be posted in Part 5 )
(2011. 11.02.) (All Rights Reserved.)
The United Nations announced that the World Population reached at 7 billion on the Halloween Day in 2011. We celebrate warmly the birth of new babies and wish for their health and future happiness.
1. How many population this Globe can accommodate? ( Posted in Part 1 )
2. Aging population in industrialized countries with les working forces
There are 3 aspects on the population issue in the World.
First, the population growth rate is static or negative in most industrialized countries, while the number of aged people are increasing with longer life expectancy. As a result, the medicare and welfare or pension costs steadily increase while working forces, therefore, the amount of tax revenues decrease.
Most industrialized countries such as Japan, U.S. and EU, are facing economic and financial difficulties, especially after the Lehmann shock in September, 2008, with the burden of huge Government debt. Their financial ability to carry out policy measures is limited. On top of it, they face such constraints as global warming and, unpredictable sever natural disasters here and there so that we can not expect high economic growth as before. How far, then, they could continue to provide Official Development Aid to developing countries, which may have facilitated population explosion in Africa and other developing countries. At least, we can say at this stage that they are not able to allot development aid as before.
3. Emergence of mega-population economies (To be posted in Part 3)
4. Lost Decade in Africa (To be posted in Part 4)
5. Need for a fundamental change in the Official Development model (To be posted in Part 5 )
(2011. 11.02.) (All Rights Reserved.)