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China has been firmly carried out her birth control policy for over 2 decades, and this has been very srccessful in practice. India is the second populous country in the world. Although overpopulation problem was identified in the 1950s, and birth control policy was implemented since then, the situation has not yet been improved. The aim of this paper is to make comparisons between these two countries, in terms of social and cultural background, geographical distribution of population, national minority structure, in order to reveal the reasons behind the China’s success, and implications for India.
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Gavin, M., Jin, Y. China’s radical birth control policy and implications for India. Chinese Geographical Science 4, 210–218 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02663373
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