In order to prevent the achievements on the economic front from being swallowed up by an unsustainably large population, a 'family 7 planning' program, the institution of the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board (SFPPB), prevalence of campaign posters, legislating abortions and sterilization, bringing in social and economic incentives such as paid maternity leave, income tax relief, housing priority, cheaper health care and free education. ... A detailed analysis of the causes that contributed to changes in fertility in Rwanda, could be the side effects of the 1990s in wh...

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Finally, extractive industries tend to be capital intensive, often having to rely on foreign investment, leading to very little linkages to other domestic economic sectors, resulting in the states sluggish growth. ... Without property rights, rent-seeking leads to lawlessness and corruption, thus being detrimental to the state's economic growth. Michael Herb suggests in his book, No Representation without Taxation, that when a measure of development that excludes the effect of oil on the economy in place of GDP per capita in statistical analysis of the causes of the democratization, oi...

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