Why do high fertility rates and overpopulation represent obstacles to development?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The countries with the highest total fertility rate are disproportionately located in the Global South, with Niger (7.2 children), Chad (6.4 children), and Democratic Republic of Congo (6.3 children) topping the list.
2. At an average fertility rate of 4, a country's population doubles every generation or so. That is something that countries cannot accommodate. Of course, fertility rates of 5, 6, or 7 make matters even worse.
3. The population of the less developed countries is expected to double between 2017 and 2050-from 1 billion to almost 2 billion-with much of this growth occurring in Africa. More people results in even greater demands on existing resources, such as land, fuel, and water. These increased demands make it very difficult for countries to escape poverty because development can occur only when resources expand more quickly than the population to which they are distributed.
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a. Roosevelt persuaded Congress to create many relief agencies outside of the bureaucracy so this increased management responsibilities for the President. b. fighting a two-front war combined with managing the economy increased the demands for information. c. Congress was willing to give the President whatever he wanted since there was unified Democratic control. d. Roosevelt’s management skills were so poor that the existing bureaucracy no longer wanted to oversee federal programs.
Almost all petitions from the lower courts to have their cases heard by the Supreme Court are ______.
a. approved b. reviewed c. denied d. retried