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Overpopulation?  No need to worry for as long as there are employment opportunities that results from good governance and economic policies.

Jobs = low population growth

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Population and Economic Progress

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It is not economic progress that is the result of low birth rate…

But low birth rate is one of the results of economic progress…

Please see related post >> population-control

Population Control

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Sometimes solutions are ironic.

Instead of the RH Bill, i believe it is more effective to give ”8 to 5″ type of jobs to people (especially women) as this will discourage having a lot of children among families where the mother has regular work.

No wonder economically advanced countries have low birth rates.

The RH Bill will just waste money.  Focus on improving the economy instead.

Why am i against the RH bill?  Read this >> Reproductive Health Bill

Also click this link >> The Decadence of Procreation

Reproductive Health Bill

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Basically I agree with the aims and objectives of the proponent of this bill.

However, I disagree with its enactment into law.

Why?

My reasons:

1. This is redundant and unnecessary expense on the part of the government because birth control methods like condoms, pills and others are already available. Our government is already wasting a big chunk of its budget in nonsense programs, let us minimize it as much as possible so we can plow the savings to programs that matters most.

2. It is my observation that the best way to control population growth is through the indirect method.

What do I mean by indirect method?

For me, the indirect method hinges mainly in giving employment to as many people as much as possible, especially women. Sounds odd to solve this problem, but have you observed that most women who have regular “8 to 5 jobs” (factory workers and sales ladies among them) have a tendency to have fewer children? Is it because they are more conscious about getting pregnant as this would affect their work? Is this the reason why most highly developed economies like Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Western European nations have negative or limited birth rates? You seldom see “istambays” in these countries.

Poor governance rather than the size of the population is the cause of poverty. In fact, the size of population is now the source of economic strength of China, India and Indonesia. But their economic growth is not due to population size per se but due to economic reforms and better governance. Even the Philippines WITHOUT an RH Bill is having positive economic prospects due to President Noynoy’s “Matuwid na Daan”.

China is going to be an interesting test case. Their government’s one-child policy (a direct top-down approach similar to the RH Bill) has not curved population growth. But ironically, their new found economic prosperity will … as what happened to Japan, South Korea and the prosperous European nations.

We don’t have to go far. Just look at the contrast between the population growth rate of busy and prosperous subdivisions against the idle and poor slums.

Okay, so this is a matter of creating more employment. The question now is how do you create more jobs?

Well, the answer is simple but complicated.

What?

The simple answer is good governance.
But it is complicated as this would lead us to another question. A question that begs for a complex answer.

The new question is what is good governance?

For my views on good governance, please see my other blogs . . .

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_Health_Bill_(Philippines)

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