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		<title>Demographic Free-fall</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/demographic-free-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low Fertility and Economic Crisis By Father John Flynn, LC ROME, FEB. 3, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Sustainable development is the imperative of the 21st century and cannot be achieved without improving reproductive health: words expressed at a recent executive board meeting by UNFPA executive director Babatunde Osotimehin, according to a Feb. 1 press release. UNFPA is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty and Population</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/poverty-and-population/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus Roberts Nothing much from me today &#8211; instead, for all of you who are more visual learners, here&#8217;s a video! This is on the beneficial effect that population has on poverty and was produced by the Population Research Institute. (You can also see another one of their videos in this earlier DID post.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Marriage Got to Do with the Economy?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/what%e2%80%99s-marriage-got-to-do-with-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning from the demographics. (From nationalreview.com.) Last week, when reviewing some of the family talk on the campaign trail, I mentioned a new study co-authored by Brad Wilcox called The Sustainable Demographic Dividend. As many National Review Online readers know, W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian marriage in trouble</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/24/asian-marriage-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Asian marriage is in the news, with The Economist reporting on “the flight from marriage” in that part of the world and the London Telegraph noting the materialism which is delaying marriages in China. As we saw last week, divorce is booming in China. But young urban women are also putting off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the demographics, not the deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/20/its-the-demographics-not-the-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/20/its-the-demographics-not-the-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert W. Patterson This article was originally published at WashingtonExaminer.com. With his daring deficit reduction plan, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin deserves credit for courageous fiscal leadership. But he is painting Republicans into a corner if he thinks exploding federal outlays can be reduced without addressing underlying family demographics. As Hoover Institution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting old – the Reason for Our Economic Malaise?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/09/getting-old-%e2%80%93-the-reason-for-our-economic-malaise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/09/getting-old-%e2%80%93-the-reason-for-our-economic-malaise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus Roberts The world’s economies, especially in the West seem to be in somewhat of a bind. The markets around the world are currently in a slide; Europe is worried about Spain and Italy; the USA has had its credit rating downgraded by S&#38;P for the first time in its history.  It is therefore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW YORK TIMES GETS IT WRONG – MOSCOW DEMOGRAPHIC SUMMIT IS ABOUT DECLINING BIRTHRATES</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/11/new-york-times-gets-it-wrong-%e2%80%93-moscow-demographic-summit-is-about-declining-birthrates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/11/new-york-times-gets-it-wrong-%e2%80%93-moscow-demographic-summit-is-about-declining-birthrates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in today’s New York Times (“Russians Adopt U.S. tactics In Opposing Abortion”) mischaracterizes the upcoming Moscow Demographic Summit: The Family and The Future of Humankind – June 29-30 a the Russian State Social University – as “an international anti-abortion meeting.” World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs, who was mentioned in The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demography is Destiny</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/31/demography-is-destiny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/31/demography-is-destiny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=5577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two articles caught my attention recently. The first was “Japan population shrinks by record in 2010”. The title should be self-explanatory. Already the most aged nation on earth, Japan&#8217;s demographic winter in 2010 was the most severe on record. The result of more and more of their young people “waiting to get married and choosing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s One-Child Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/10/22/america%e2%80%99s-one-child-policy-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/10/22/america%e2%80%99s-one-child-policy-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What China imposed on its population, we’re adopting voluntarily. Published on The Weekly Standard For the last several months, Chinese officials have been floating the idea of relaxing the country’s famed “One-Child” policy. One-Child has long been admired in the West by environmentalists, anti-population doomsayers, and some of our sillier professional wise men. In Hot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Without Children</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/23/life-without-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/23/life-without-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Social Retreat from Children and How it is Affecting America Interesting for those who are interested.]]></description>
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		<title>Will the one-child policy wreck China’s economy?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/18/will-the-one-child-policy-wreck-china%e2%80%99s-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/18/will-the-one-child-policy-wreck-china%e2%80%99s-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to start having kids, China. If you still can. Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com China’s rapid economic development and America’s evident vulnerabilty after the Global Financial Crisis could make the Chinese a bit smug. But as leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt points out in a frightening article in the Far Eastern Economic Review, China faces gigantic economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When will Europe look after its families?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/24/when-will-europe-look-after-its-families/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/24/when-will-europe-look-after-its-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Moynihan, Mercatornet.com Here is something for the inaugural European Union president, Herman van Rompuy, to put his stamp on: the revival of the European family. The EU is very active in telling member states what to do about certain social issues &#8212; for example, condemning a recent Lithuanian law which prohibits promotion of “homosexual, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economist swings &#8217;round on population</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/12/the-economist-swings-round-on-population/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/12/the-economist-swings-round-on-population/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com The message is finally getting through: the population bomb has fizzled out and fertility is falling nearly everywhere in the world. Sometime in the next few years (if it hasn’t happened already) the world will reach a milestone: half of humanity will be having only enough children to replace itself. That is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is low fertility bottoming out?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/is-low-fertility-bottoming-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/is-low-fertility-bottoming-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dermot Grenham, Mercatornet.com The received wisdom among demographers and other social sciences is that as countries develop economically and socially their fertility rates decline. However, a recent article in Nature1 has shown that at higher levels of development, as measured by the UN’s Human Development Index (HDI), the fall in fertility goes into reverse. Could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion in Italy declines while fertility inches up</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/abortion-in-italy-declines-while-fertility-inches-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/abortion-in-italy-declines-while-fertility-inches-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vincenzina Santoro Mercatornet.com Is Italy breaking out of a demographic nose-dive? Each year the Italian Ministry responsible for health presents a report to Parliament on abortion trends. Data presented a few weeks ago by Undersecretary Eugenia Maria Roccella of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Policy brings encouraging news: Abortions have continued to decline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain unprepared for looming population crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/08/britain-unprepared-for-looming-population-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/08/britain-unprepared-for-looming-population-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William West Britain is bracing itself for the ageing of its population with the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing that the proportion of people aged over 65 is set to rise dramatically. The release of the latest figures come at a time when Britain is already struggling to fund [...]]]></description>
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