Have we done...

[doodab]

Which was why I picked the article in the first place and I even said it was the flip side of the argument.

The thing is that birth rates are a micro economic decision made on an individual basis. Just look at France and Germany. No matter how much money their governments throw at increasing family sizes nothing is working.

Aside from touching on a related subject, how exactly is it "the flip side of the argument"? If anything, it bolsters the original argument, as it's simply saying that some success is being had reducing child mortality in Africa, and that is broadly speaking in agreement with the assumptions of the UN population forecast I posted earlier.

All macro statistics are the result of millions of micro decisions made on an individual basis. If we look at France and Germany and extrapolate then what should we conclude? That in 200 years we'll be talking about a whole different population crisis as the global population shrinks.

You seem to be making a case for the exact opposite of what you think you are arguing for.

[sasguru]

Feck me, I can feel that snicker that means I'm going to laughing so hard it hurts in a minute......
You fooking cretins are just so thick you have me in stitches every time

[eek]

You seem to be making a case for the exact opposite of what you think you are arguing for.

What? That economic well being = small families.

[doodab]

What? That economic well being = small families.

Yes, eventually, because economic well being => lower child mortality and eventually that leads to a fall in the birth rate.

[eek]

Yes, eventually, because economic well being => lower child mortality and eventually that leads to a fall in the birth rate.

no economic well being directly leads to lower birth rate. I'll have to try and dig up the economic paper but its known.

[sasguru]

no economic well being directly leads to lower birth rate. I'll have to try and dig up the economic paper but its known.

Keep digging ....
You heard of epistemology?

[doodab]

no economic well being directly leads to lower birth rate. I'll have to try and dig up the economic paper but its known.

Not in the absence of low death rates it doesn't, because if you have a high death rate and a low birth rate you don't have economic well being for very long.

[NotAllThere]

Keep digging ....
You heard of epistemology?

He's digging for bugs?

[eek]

Keep digging ....
You heard of epistemology?

No just don't have the passwords to get on to the university library and identify the paper

[eek]

Not in the absence of low death rates it doesn't, because if you have a high death rate and a low birth rate you don't have economic well being for very long.

It's a micro decision. I can earn money therefore I'm busy and not interested tonight hubby