Annotated Bibliography: The End Of The One-Child Policy

Bibliography

Jackson, Richard. “The End of the One-Child Policy.” CSIS, Center for Strategic and
International Studies. October 29, 2015. Accessed November 12, 2015. http://csis.org/publication/end-one-child-policy This article gives a brief overview about the reason for the elimination of the one child policy, and detailed reasons as to how the action would not cause mass population growth amongst the people of China, but would rather have very little impact at all. It states that the one child policy was created to combat the growing percentage of infant mortality, but resulting in solving the problem at a degree far greater than what was expected, to which the policy, combined with other economic aspects, resulted in an uneven balance

It states that, before the one child policy, China was in an over populated state, had a shortage of resources to supply everyone within the country, and a short life expectancy among its citizens, which in turn resulted in prompting the enactment of the one child policy with the intent of limiting the population growth and the negative effects that would coincide with the population increase. Also noted by the webpage was the result the one child policy had had on China’s population after decades of being in action, stating that while the policy had slowed the population growth down, it had consequences that would further stunt the population of China beyond simply slowing it down that would carry on to affect China even after the policy was eliminated. The source can be used as a repository of background information for the enactment and result of the one child policy, providing information that would help with the understanding of the context of the event. It could also be used as a ways of comparison, with the source providing the figures that are the result of the policy in action, which could then be compared with the predicted effect on population with the elimination of the policy, showing the different, and thus the level of impact, the elimination of China’s one child policy would have on its

It states that China, having fallen in birth rates throughout the country, has eliminated the one child policy and replaced it with the two child policy, attempting to increase the number of youth and prevent the overall decline of the population of the nation in the long run, having had the decline of the population being predicted by multiple experts in comparison to the United States and India. Also noted by the article were many statistics and facts that supported the idea that China’s population would not be immediately affected by the elimination of the one child policy, providing evidence to be used in support of the thesis. The source can be used as evidence to support the thesis, with the many statistical facts provided from experts supporting both that there would not be an immediate large impact on the population from the policy elimination, providing an indisputable basis that, being numbers and facts that were claimed by experts on the field of population, would add to the argument of the thesis. The numbers and facts mentioned in the article also be used as comparison between the effect the one child policy had on China’s population and the predicted future outcome at the removal of the