CHAPTER 6 | Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes, Consequences, and Controversies

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Which of these is NOT a way to lower birth rates? Educating women, Giving women more job choices, Improving the water supply, Creating social security programs

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Improving the water supply

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Why do people in poor countries have many children?

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Cultural norms, They need children to help them, They don’t have other ways to be secure in old age.

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Which of these helps lower birth rates: Educating women, Giving families’ money for each baby, Making it harder to use birth control, Telling people to have big families?

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Educating women

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It is public programmes designed to help parents plan and regulate their family size

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Family-planning programs

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Making the country richer will automatically lower birth rates

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False

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The main cause of high fertility rates in developing countries is poverty

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True

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Why is it important for rich nations to reduce their resource consumption?

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To free up resources for poor countries and reduce waste

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Why is family planning important in controlling population growth?

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It helps people decide the number of children they can support.

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Which factor has helped lower fertility rates in many developing countries?

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Improved access to family planning and education

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What is one reason why allowing migration from poor to rich countries can help reduce poverty?

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It gives people better job opportunities