Similar to other developed nations, Singapore has been experiencing a dwindling birth rate and ageing population.
>> And area where other developing countries like India are in position of advantage, but need to channel right.
>> And area where other developing countries like India are in position of advantage, but need to channel right.
It is not just a developed country issue.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...
https://tradingeconomics.com/india/corruption-rank
These days people want luxurious life. Those days are simply gone where people would be satisfy wit basic needs + education. And with the advent of social media like facebook/instagram where people tends to show off a lot this will make the situation more worst.
One example is passport. Previously it took few months and you had to bribe multiple offices to get a passport faster. Now you get passport within a week. And the only physical link left is the police verification. Vehicle registration, transfer etc also moved online recently and reduced the scope of bribe there. Land registration and records are also in the process of moving online.
But on the other side, corruption at political level etc are not reducing .
The 70's called. They want their boogeyman back.
70s were full of boogeymen. Not that other decades were / are much better. The methods shift, the profit stays.
The easiest way to tackle climate change is to drastically reduce the population. Short of genocide - which only authoritarian governments can pull off - the easiest way is to set up an environment that puts as many barriers as possible on reproduction.
Make children extremely expensive so that only the elites can have multiple children. Inflate the cost of everything so it's impossible for a single-worker household to survive, and the cost of a third mouth to feed/educate/raise prohibitive. Then sit back and wait a generation or two. It's China's one child policy, but applied globally, through economics and social dynamics.
/tin foil hat off, but I also wouldn't entirely be surprised if there's a meeting precisely on this at Davos every year.
Ironically, they repealed that policy because it was having a negative effect.
> Make children extremely expensive so that only the elites can have multiple children.
Another irony since it's the elites that tend to not have many children, not the poor.