Birth
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Simple blood tests, a doctor’s consultation, and someone qualified to help with the
birth
can make a huge difference.
Compared with most other species, human beings are so immature at
birth
that they require an exceptionally long period of nursing and shelter.
Life expectancy at
birth
ranks 153rd in the world, just behind Honduras and Kazakhstan.
It also brought the
birth
of modern economics, with major breakthroughs by the likes of Adam Smith, Augustin Cournot, and John Stuart Mill.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), despite this colossal spending, America lags behind Japan and several European countries in standard measures of health: infant mortality, life expectancy at birth, and deaths that could have been prevented by appropriate medical care.
Syria’s people may have no predilection for violence, but the
birth
of freedom, once witnessed, is not easily forgotten – or trumped by state handouts and vacuous statements by a distant, self-isolated leadership.
For many of India’s poor, living in unmapped villages or slums, a digital ID gives them official personhood – just as a
birth
certificate or social security number does in developed countries.
It is now in the final stages of its long and difficult birth, and by the New Year should be bringing new mechanisms to bear to streamline European decision-making.
As a staff economist at the Fed in the 1970s, I witnessed first-hand the
birth
of the Great Inflation – and the role played by inept central banking in creating it.
The point is not to prop up dying industries, but to increase the
birth
rate and reduce the infant-mortality rate of firms in industries that can take their place, especially those that can sell to “outsiders,” reconnecting each location with external and increasingly global markets.
The end of government secrecy does not mean the
birth
of the informed citizen; nor does more control necessarily suggest more trust in public institutions.
Stunting starts before
birth
and is caused by poor maternal nutrition and food quality, along with frequent infections.
Birth
rates have been low in developed countries for some time, but now they are falling rapidly in the majority of developing countries.
An additional factor could depress future
birth
rates in China and India.
Similarly, India has a gender ratio at
birth
of around 110 boys for every 100 girls, with large regional variations.
But this may change as the source countries become richer and undergo rapid declines in
birth
rates.
But, with
birth
rates declining there, too, current trends suggest that its population will probably stabilize at 1.55 billion in the early 2050’s, a full decade ahead of – and 170 million people below – the UN’s forecast.
On January 1, a European Union directive came into effect banning the use of individual sow stalls from the fourth week of pregnancy until one week before the sow gives
birth.
The underlying issue here is that of the organic form and logic in the birth, evolution, and possible decay of human institutions.
Because Spain and France defaulted so much in the early modern period, and because Greece, from the moment of its political
birth
in 1830, was a chronic or serial defaulter, some assume that national temperament somehow imbues countries with a proclivity to default.
Could not the same be said of Darwin's theory of unremitting competition, which grew out of a society giving
birth
to free-market capitalism?
That is why today’s emerging markets are so much less productive than rich countries were in 1960, even though the latter were less urban, had higher
birth
rates and less formal schooling, and used much older technologies.
And higher literacy rates among adolescent girls are associated with lower adolescent
birth
rates and improved health (SDG 3).
Of course, what’s true today could be demographically unsustainable tomorrow; and if Japan’s
birth
rate remains permanently at 1.4, rapid population decline could pose severe problems.
And, in the absence of an increase in the
birth
rate or at least some immigration, the technological progress that Japan seeks will be essential to cope with an aging society.
According to Héctor Schamis, a political scientist at Georgetown University, if a similar political change had occurred in France or Brazil, the country’s citizens would be celebrating the
birth
of a new republic.
Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the
birth
of Poland’s Marie Curie, one of the greatest scientists of all time.
But, 150 years after Marie Curie’s birth, it is clear that action is long overdue.
First and foremost, there is its ever-falling labor supply, owing to extraordinarily low
birth
rates and deep-seated resistance to foreign immigration.
But the experts enlisted by the Copenhagen Consensus Center found one governance-related target that actually would do some good for each dollar spent: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including
birth
registration.”
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