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Economic and
Development Aspectsof the Reproductive
HealthBill
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A. Consumption as one of the main
drivers of the economy: In basic Economics (especially
Macroeconomics), it is taught that the
following variables are, in the general, thedrivers of National Income:
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Emphasis has been given to C (Consumption)
as this refers to the contribution to economicdevelopment of the consuming or spending
public (whether they are citizens of the land or
foreigners contributing to the local economy).
This is the basis of recent pronouncements by: the current Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas (BSP) and
former Pres. Bill Clinton during his visit to the
Philippines: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/vi
ew/20101113-302959/Clinton-More-babies-a-boon-to-
Filipinos
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One way of showing this
consumption-driven argument for
sustaining a healthy level of
population growth is to show therevenues and income being
contributed to the economy by
sales of consumer products andservices. Some of these data are
shown on the following slides:
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Filipino babies and children are reliable
CONSUMERS:
1. Milk for babies/children P 95 billion
Bonakid, Promise, Promil
2. Clothes for babies/children- P65 billion
OshKosh, Barbie, SM Childrens wear,
Tinker Bell, Original Cartoon apparel
3. Diapers P100 billion pesos
(Pampers, QQ, Comfort, Huggies, MagicColor, Drypers)
Source: Top 5,000 Companies, Securities and
Exchange Commission, 2010
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1. Marketing Budget for Baby Diapers
Procter & Gamble = P94,275,700 or 2.3 Billion
Pesos yearly
2. Vitamins and healthcare spending P100
million
3. Pre-school P216M + 1 billion
(Ateneo, La Salle, Miriam, Montessori)
5. Gifts, Toys, Accessories P 2 billion
(Toy Kingdom, Toy Express, Geekmatic)
6. DFA e-passport fee P408,000
Source: Top 5,000 Companies, Securities and
Exchange Commission, 2010
Filipino babies and children are
reliable CONSUMERS:
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Filipino babies are future industry
workers
Scientific and engineering progress has been
quantitatively the single most important factor
for growth in the advanced countries."
- Paul Samuelson
The "population explosion" that advocates
claimed coincided with a technologicalexplosion in computers, medicine, flight, space
exploration, the Internet, and energy efficiency.
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B. Human Capital as the critical link
between national programs andsustainable economic development:
In scholarly economic research undertaken
by an economist at Catholic University of
America, it has been shown clearly that
population control policies the world over
have miserably failed to achieve economic
development and protection of theenvironment, which are purportedly the aims
of such population and development
programs.
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(Contd) For decades, increasingly large
amounts of money have been spent on limitingpopulation growth of underdeveloped countries.
Accompanied by verbal calisthenics,
population control has become populationassistance, and birth control has become
reproductive health services. Population
control has, unfortunately, been pursued at the
expense of true womens rights and to thedetriment of real economic growth and social
improvement.
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This reasoning can be summarized
in the following diagram:
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Population Implosion: Such family planning or
reproductive health focus has often been
presented in terms of urgent social responsibility.
Population growth has been seen everywhere as
a threat to prosperity or even survival. Recent
demographic data, however, have clearly shown
that the force of the demographic argument has
not only been lost in Western countries, but has
been totally reversed. Dwindling and aging
populations are now the prospect facing almost
all the developed countries, which show strong
evidence of being technologically developed
societies in rapid human decline.
http://www.cormacburke.or.ke/node/43
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The same scholarly economic research uncovered
the fact that for UNFPA, population assistancemeans population control, HIV/AIDS and
reproductive health, and thatpoverty reduction
translates to a smallerpopulation, as if these
would be the necessary steps for people todevelop. Yet, poor quality health programs and
sanitation are causing a large number of deaths in
developing countries while real economic growth ishampered by lack of access to basic
infrastructures, property rights, and credit, among
others.
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While HIV/AIDS is a serious health problem, especially in
Sub-Saharan Africa, the leading causes of death are stillnot HIV/AIDS but:
cardiovascular diseases (16.7 million per year),
malignant neoplasms (7.1 million per year),
injuries (5.2 million per year),
respiratory infections (3.9 million per year),respiratory diseases (3.7 million per year), and
pre-natal conditions (2.5 million per year).
When looking at infectious diseases:
respiratory infections come first (3.9 million per year),followed by HIV/AIDS (2.8 million per year),
diarrhoeal diseases (1.8 million per year, mainly children),
tuberculosis (1.6 million per year), and
malaria (1.2 million per year).
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(Contd) Infectious diseases are rare, accessible, and
treatable in developed countries and, with theexception of HIV/AIDS, the cost is remarkably low.
The deaths due to maternal conditions are only 540,000
and, in most cases, these deaths could be prevented
with:a simple delivery kit and/or trained personnel [see
medical arguments against the R.H.Bill below].
It is clear that the present channeling of funds is not
addressing either the health needs or the long-termdevelopment needs of developing countries. It rather
sets them for a future and serious problem, an ageing
population with no means orpeople to support them.
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Declining Fertility Rates Worldwide:
An updated video by Economist.comexplains very clearly this phenomenon of
globally declining fertility rates, way below
the replacement rate.
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Demography reveals the hoax of
overpopulation and exposes the truth on the
alarming and near-irreversible consequences
of more than thirty years contraceptive useand intensive campaign in population control
and reduction: a collapsing pension system in
the developed world, the rise of aging
populations unable to be supported by ashrinking young age group, and the fallacy of
linking poverty to population, as the shrinking
world population has not resulted in less
world poverty.
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The truth is that we have to maintain the naturalpopulationpyramidin order for society and mankind itself tosurvive. The natural family has to be maintained andfertility must not be regulated at merely replacement levelsor below, otherwise serious consequences will set in.
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Demographics...Viewing of documentary film Demographic Winter highly recommended:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PjiMDMHGPU
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Beckers research was fundamental in arguing
for the augmentability ofhuman capital.
Beckers research on human social interactionshas had many implications for the family such
as for the marriage market, divorce, fertility, and
social security. A major focus ofBeckers
research was the impact of higher real wages in
increasing the value of time and therefore the
cost of home production such as childrearing.
As women increase investment in human capital
and enter the work force the opportunity cost of
childcare rises. Additionally, the increased rateof return to education raises the desire to
provide children with formal and costly
education. Coupled together, the impact is to
lower fertility rates.
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Social Securitys Contribution
to the Fertility Crisis Social security schemes around the
developed world are facing a major crisis
due to greater longevity, declining
retirement ages and lo and behold
below-replacement fertility rates.
Problems: (1) disincentives to work ; (2)demographic change results from those
systems.
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Main reason why people used to have largefamilies was that it was economically sound.Sociologists and demographers call it "theold age security motive for fertility."
In the absence of public social securitysystems, families function as a type ofprivate, informal pay-as-you-go insurancemechanism, in which parents look after their
children, and children care for their parents insickness and old age in return.
The decline of fertility in the 20th centuryis a dismal reality.
Social Securitys Contribution to
the Fertility Crisis (Contd)