In the 1970's, India and China faced similar issues in terms of economic development and population control. But while China chose to control its birth rates and rapidly expand its economy, India chose to allow overpopulation and economic stagnation relative to China.Why is that? Why did Indian leadership make this specific decision?
Those aren't mutually exclusive. China could have kept birthrates high and developed the economy.
>>18451101Thing is, having a lot of people doesn't make a country automatically stronger or wealthier if it can't adequately asign them to economically productive sectors, or develop their social capital. China's strategy was to develop the coast as an urbanized, high-educated population, while keeping a large of reserve of rural intinerant workers who can work on said factories for pennies, who can then return to the interior provinces for social services, so as not strain the resources of the coast.
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>>18451101Not really, industrialisation naturally lowers birth rates because children become an economic liability in an urban environment as opposed to an economic asset in a rural economy.
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>>18451417>as opposed to an economic asset in a rural economy.In the case of limited land supply (basically all countries except US) children are economic liability in rural economy, Because production is gated by land not workforce. Family with little number of kids would have same land plot as family with large number of kids and same harvest but more mouths to feed.
>>18451437they're also food, medicine, and entertainment.
>>18451098China is run like a country sized factory. India is run like a country sized call center
>>18451098During the mid 1970s (and even before) India adopted a mass sterilization program (sometimes compulsory) that to this day remains the most extensive one in the world. But you don't know this, of course, you are just a retard trying to understand the world through fairytales you make up; I can't hold that against against you.Population growth and economic development aren't even contradictory. Current India is one of the world's fastest growing economies, as of right now. It's actually been outperforming China for some years. India's late 20th century stagnation is better explained as an outcropping of a much more sluggish adoption of free-market principles than post-maoist China and an equally sovietic insistance on bureaucracy and regulation. The infamous "Permit Raj".
>>18452538>It's actually been outperforming China for some yearsplease to be posting any proofs sir
