Is Blair the Daddy of Britain's mysterious baby boom?
Britain has undergone a dramatic baby-boom in the first part of this century - and experts suspect that, inadvertently, Tony Blair is the daddy.
According to a report out today, women in the UK have suddenly started to have significantly larger families: in 2001 the average was 1.64 but by 2008 it was 1.97.
Quite why the noughties should have inspired such a turnaround in Britain's fertility rate is something of a mystery. The experts are confident the explanation is not immigration but think it might be an unintended consequence of policies to reduce child poverty.
You may remember all those Doomsday scenarios a decade ago of imploding European populations, with fertility spiralling downwards. Well, it hasn't happened. Fertility rates across the EU have stabilised and increased in some countries - notably the UK.
While the chances of reaching the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman looked "remote" for Britain in the early years of the millennium, it "now appears much more likely".
Something extraordinary occurred shortly after Tony Blair became prime minister that, according to research by the think-tank Rand Europe , meant "of all the countries of the European Union, the UK has had one of most dramatic turnarounds in period total fertility over the last five years, with recent gains more than reversing the slow decline of the previous two decades".
The graph tells the story: the high fertility rates (TFR) of the sixties plummeted with the availability of the contraceptive pill and stuck well below the level required to replace the population for 25 years.
It was a similar story in many developed European countries and the warnings inspired some governments to introduce policies encouraging their citizens to breed. The European Union, fearful of an economic catastrophe from low fertility rates and an aging population, made a clear commitment in 2005 to "demographic renewal".
The British, however, have traditionally rejected the notion of politicians interfering in family life. As today's Rand report puts it: "Successive UK governments have pursued an essentially neo-liberal policy, leaving decisions about childbearing to families and maintaining a laissez-faire attitude towards the economy."
So, British changes to the fertility rate are accident rather than design, which makes the steep rise during the last decade all the more curious. Whatever happened here was sufficiently dramatic to outstrip the concerted efforts of other countries to achieve the same result.
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The man who coined the term BRIC in 2001 when he was Goldman's head of global economic research to describe the fast-growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China told CNBC at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that India

The graph tells the story: the high fertility rates (TFR) of the sixties plummeted with the availability of the contraceptive pill and stuck well below the level required to replace the population for 25 years. It was a similar story in many developed
It would also, according to a government document, rein in the practice that's responsible for India's growing population imbalance—female foeticide. The state needs the scheme to work. Its already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse as the
According to its assessment of the region, Bundelkhand performs poorly on several parameters, both in comparison to the state and India. It has the highest number of persons engaged in agriculture in comparison to total main workers (2001) at 70.08%.
The report noted that school retention rates are improving, but still, only a little more than half of those who started primary school in 2001 reached the eighth grade by March 31, 2008. The report said student attendance on a day-to-day basis is hurt
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Worlds’ Sikhs! They MUST be stopped!
Washington D.C. Wednesday April 6, 2011: India, the worlds’ largest demoNcracy, released (last Thursday) the first results of the (2011) census which shows that the world’s second-most populous nation (India) had added, in the past decade, another 181 million people (equivalent to about six ‘Canadas’) to reach a huge population total of one billion two hundred million, despite the fact that, India’s bigoted Brahmin-caste- dominated ruling elite, has been engaged in ‘statistical’ and physical ‘ethnic cleansing’ of minorities like the Sikhs, tribals, Muslims, Dalits and other minorities.
While people are focused on the results of the 2010 census a ‘statistical ethnic cleansing’ of the Sikhs has been discovered. There is no better example in the whole world, of statistical ‘ethnic cleansing’ than the current state-sponsored exercise, being covertly carried out by Indian Intelligence agency operatives on behalf of the Indian rulers to reduce the numbers of a muscular and proud minority – the Sikhs. This ‘statistical ethnic cleansing’ of the Sikhs is being carried out in the worlds’ top Encyclopedias, Almanacs and Year books etc., to somehow reduce the number of the worlds’ Sikhs and thus reduce their voice and their influence. The following lines will show how the muscular, prosperous hard working Sikhs are being ‘ethnically cleansed’ by the use of statistics:- According to the ‘2008 New York Times World Almanac And Book of Facts’ page 711 (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 4-3781: Soft-cover ISBN-10: 1-60057-072-0: ISBN 13: 978-1-60057- 072-8) the worlds’ Sikh population was shown (four years ago, in 2008) as numbering twenty five million, eight hundred and eighty thousand, one hundred (yes 25, 880, 100). This number was sourced to the prestigious2007 Encyclopedia Britannica, on page 711 of the widely-used 2008 New York Times World Almanac and Year book published by World Almanac Books, 132 West, 31st street, New York, NY 10001.
Lo and behold, one year later, the Sikh population for the whole world, in 2009, was shown as having dropped to 22, 927, 500 (from the 2008 figure of 25, 880, 100, mentioned in the above paragraph) and published in the prestigious ‘2009 New York Times World Almanac And Book Of Facts’, page 682 (Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 43781: Soft-cover ISBN-10: 1-60057-105-0: ISBN 13: 978-1- 60057-105-3). About Three million Sikhs just disappeared from the face of the earth – statistically ‘cleansed’ as a consequence! These reduced numbers were also sourced to the prestigious and widely used 2008 Encyclopedia Britannica by the ‘2009 New York Times World Almanac And Book Of Facts’. A telephone call was made to The World Almanac Books publisher of the Almanac in New York (which was attended by an employee with an accent) who was asked to correct the false (reduced) entry for the world’s Sikh population. He promised to look into it. He did’nt!
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