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Geography Notes 1/29/2013

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  1. Low Growth Country
    • equality, Birth
    • control,  economic growth
  2. Fast Growth Rate
    Unstable
  3. Measures Fertility/Mortality of A Region
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  4. What Does

    High Fertility/Mortality Bring

    In A Country?
    •Future Prob=LessJobs= High Crime

    •Future Job?=Crime, Extremist Movements
  5. What are some unstable regions?
    • •Unstable
    • Regions= Somalia,
    • Mali( North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa)
  6. What Asian Country is slowing growth?
    China
  7. •China In 1949
    After Communist victory /550 mill ppl

    •1970=850mill ppl
    2.5% growth rate per yr

    •Mao Zedong-Policies=Famine=70mill starved

    •Mao Dies= 1970’s successor Deng(dung) xiaoPing-Capitalistic approach

    •Deng=1child per couple policy= “carrot
    and stick Approach”
    •China-1949 After Communist victory /550 mill ppl

    •1970=850 mill ppl 2.5% growth rate per yr

    •Mao Zedong-Policies=Famine=70mill starved

    •Mao Dies= 1970’s successor Deng(dung) xiao Ping-Capitalistic approach

    • •Deng=1 child per couple policy= “carrot
    • and stick Approach”
  8. What Were Deng Xiao Ping's Results?
     
    •Growth Rate Down 1%=13 million per yr=300 mill less ppl then if policy was still in place

    •Sex imbalance male(JOBS/$)

    •300,000 more males than girls

    •40 mill permanent bachelor=leave
    country Illegally=Indentured servant


    •Rapid Aged Society

    •No Extended Family
    -Growth Rate Down 1%=13 million per yr=300 mill less ppl then if policy was still in place

    •Sex imbalance male(JOBS/$)

    •300,000 more males than girls

    •40 mill permanent bachelor=leave countryIllegally=Indentured servant


    •Rapid Aged Society

    •No Extended Family
  9. Describe France/Japan/U.S. Low Growth Rate


    •Low fertility/Mortality rate

    •More women=longer life

    •Urban/Industrial/Prosperity/Legal Abortion
    •Low fertility/Mortality rate

    •More women=longer life

    •Urban/Industrial/Prosperity/Legal Abortion
  10. What is France's Social Welfare System Like?


    •Health Care

    •Gov Pension(Retirement Account)=Retire with 70% best Salary=60 for social security

    •35hr work per week=5wk vacay

    •Free college=selective

    •U.S. 67 forFor Social Security
    •Health Care

    •Gov Pension(Retirement Account)=Retire with 70% best Salary=60 for social security

    •35hr work per week=5wk vacay

    •Free college=selective

    •U.S. 67 for social security
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