Exam 12: Coping With Demographic Change

The age transition in a country is largely determined by:

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to a huge flood of refugees into the United States.

An important serendipitous outcome of the 1984 Mexico City Conference was the Global Gag Rule, which reflected Ronald Reagan's opposition to:

The country that is projected to add the greatest number of people to the planet between now and the middle of this century is:

Although the U.S. government does not have an official population policy, it does provide the following:

The World Population Conference in 1974 in Bucharest was unique in that it was the first to bring together policy makers rather than professional demographers.

France provides an example showing that pronatalist policies can help to produce higher-than-expected fertility levels.

Which of the following policy initiatives would likely do the LEAST to raise fertility levels in Europe?

By the year 2050, which of the following regions of the world will have the lowest percentages of people living in urban areas?

The "Global Gag Rule" refers to the use of condoms.

Which of these countries was the first to develop a policy to limit fertility?

The region of the world that is expected to have the highest level of infant mortality in the middle of this century is:

Which of the following policies to limit fertility would respond most closely to Coale's first precondition relating to the acceptance of rational choice?

The U.S. approach that "development is the best contraceptive" was put forward at the 1984 International Population Conference in Mexico City.

The most important aspects of the ICPD programme to influence fertility relate to the setting of quotas or targets for specific countries to meet.

The main outcome of the 1974 World Population Conference was:

The world population conferences in Rome in 1954 and Belgrade in 1965 differed from subsequent population conferences in that:

Governments that think their country's rate of growth is too high are most apt to be located in:

Family planning programs tend to focus especially on:

The enforced sterilization program in India has been nearly as successful as China's One-Child Policy in lowering the birth rate.