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Title: Increase in the Number of Households and Reduction of Household Size in China
Increase in the number of households in China
Description:  But another factor has worked in the opposite direction: the number of China’s households grew almost three times as fast as its population during 1985–2000, because average household size decreased from 4.5 to 3.5 people5,6. This alone gave China an extra 80 million households in 2000.  Because smaller households consume more resources per person5, China’s rapid increase in household number and reduction in household size have had significant environmental consequences. For instance, while China’s household size has been declining, its per capita house floor area has increased more than threefold from the late 1970s to the present.


Despite a fall in population growth rate, the number of Chinese is projected to reach almost 1.5 billion by 2030. The projected drop in household size to 2.2 people6 by the year 2030 alone would add over 250 million new households — more than the total in the entire Western Hemisphere in 2000 — even if China’s population size remained constant.
==Description:==


Over the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China—the BRICs economies—could become a much
larger force in the world economy. Goldman Sachs has predicted that China will become the largest economy in 2041, closely followed by the US and India


==Enablers:==


Enablers:
1. Stable Macro Environment
• Divorces have increased sharply owing to simplified divorce procedures and wider societal acceptance of divorce.  In 2004, more than 1.6 million couples filed for divorce, up 21% from 2003. Divorces hurt the environment because they double the number of households and reduce the household size, increasing per capita resource consumption and waste.  
 
• There has been a decline in the number of households where several generations live under one roof.   Many older people now live alone, rather than with their children and grandchildren.
2. Strong and Stable political institutions
Inhibitors:
 
Paradigms:
3. Openess to trade and foreign direct investments
Timing:
 
Web Resources:
4. High levels of education
 
==Inhibitors:==
 
1. Unstable political environment, minority issues
 
2. Unhealthy financial institutions (Not commercial driven)
 
3. Working population decreasing (one child policy)    
 
==Paradigms:==
 
1. Change of world power when China becomes the biggest economy
 
 
==Timing:==
 
2015: China's economy will be bigger than Japan
 
2041: China's economy will be bigger than US
1949: psychologist Donald Hebb suggests that a strengthening of the connections between neurons in the brain accounts for learning.
 
==Web Resources:==
 
1. http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf

Latest revision as of 14:30, 14 September 2009

Increase in the number of households in China

Description:

Over the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China—the BRICs economies—could become a much larger force in the world economy. Goldman Sachs has predicted that China will become the largest economy in 2041, closely followed by the US and India


Enablers:

1. Stable Macro Environment

2. Strong and Stable political institutions

3. Openess to trade and foreign direct investments

4. High levels of education

Inhibitors:

1. Unstable political environment, minority issues

2. Unhealthy financial institutions (Not commercial driven)

3. Working population decreasing (one child policy)

Paradigms:

1. Change of world power when China becomes the biggest economy


Timing:

2015: China's economy will be bigger than Japan

2041: China's economy will be bigger than US 1949: psychologist Donald Hebb suggests that a strengthening of the connections between neurons in the brain accounts for learning.

Web Resources:

1. http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf

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