TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy on Tuesday to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran's decades of internationally-acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western import. The new government initiative will pay families for every new child and deposit money into the newborn's bank account until they reach 18, effectively rolling back years of efforts to boost the economy by reducing the country's once runaway population growth.
In this Article I examine “medical tourism”—the travel of patients who are residents of one country to another country for medical treatment—which is fast becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. To date, the primary U.S. medical tourists appear to have been uninsured or underinsured Americans seeking substantial cost savings by traveling to less developed countries for care. More recently, state governments, self-insured firms, Fortune 500 companies, and domestic insurers have begun attempts to get their insured populations to use medical tourism as well by requiring it or giving incentives for its use (what I call “insurer-prompted medical tourism”). There is, however, a dark side to the growth of this industry. In this Article I set out...
It has been estimated that the world's current population of 5.9 billion people will probably increase to 9.4 billion by 2050. Although the net increase will likely be accounted for by the developing world, no country will be spared from the effects of population growth. Population policies targeting three areas can counter the threat of unabated population growth. These are policies involving family planning, the desire of those who want large families and population momentum.
The old saying that crime doesn't pay stands on its head nowadays, not on its feet, in a growing prison industry fed by a rising prison population in West Virginia and across the country. The state growth is expected to rise 20 percent in the next four years, according to public and private studies. The projection makes worse the current problem of overcrowding by some 6,000 inmates in regional jails and state penitentiaries.
Results of a study conducted by the futures company Coates and Jarratt for the International Assn of Business Communicators reveal the future trends that would help shape society and business around the world. These findings have important implications for business communicators because their profession is certain to be affected by the trends identified by the study. The trends explored in the research concern the rising global population, work and social changes, the global economy, economic growth by region and country, new business practices, and information technology. According to he study, senior managers believe that the most valuable role of communicators could be identifying the trends relevant to their business. However, they did not think that communicators can effectively pr...
WASHINGTON, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Finding Balance: Forests and Family Planning in Madagascar, an award-winning 9- minute documentary by Population Action International, explores the work of Voahary Salama -- an innovative local organization that works to reduce pressure on the environment while improving the health of the country's population-and features rare interviews with local women who reveal their desire to have smaller families. The content of the film, which draws attention to the impact of rapid population growth on the country's rural villages by offering a look at its fragile ecosystem, approaches poverty in Madagascar from a vital human perspective.
West Virginias jails and prisons are so full that some inmates are sleeping on the floor, and the states inmate population is expected to grow substantially through the end of the decade. Officials dont believe building more prisons will solve the problem. Instead, they want a new approach to corrections and rehabilitation. Were at a crisis, were at a critical stage. We cant understate that, said state Military Affairs and Public Safety Secretary Joe Thornton. We have no vacancy. And that means some inmates at the states 10 regional jails are sleeping on the floor. There are still a handful of inmates that dont have a bunk, Deputy Secretary Joe DeLong said. DeLong said an additional 400 bunks have been ordered and theyll be placed where theres room. After those 400 bunks are installed, ...
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WASHINGTON - America's population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to Census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation's politics and even the traditional notion of the country's heartland - long the symbol of mainstream American beliefs and culture. The West is now home to the four fastest-growing states - Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho - and has surpassed the Midwest in population, according to 2010 figures. California and Texas added to the southwestern population tilt, making up more than one-fourth of the nation's total gains since 2000.
... world--one that calls for a population sophisticated enough to make appropriate decisions... this better than the world's population growth over time. The earth sustained relatively slow pop... colleges and universities across the country. (17) Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln...
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