Archive for September 30th, 2009

China’s Demographic Transition and its Population Policy

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

[Source: commons.wikimedia.org Author fargomeD License GNU Free Documentation License] A population pyramid (or age sex structure) often tells a story. Detective Discussion points: What are the unusual features of the above age-sex structure? Can you suggest possible reasons? So how might this story look if we plotted the birth rates and death rates on the [...]

Market Economies

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

   [Source: flickr.com Image by Concrete Forms Some rights reserved] All economies need to answer the three basic questions which result from the fact of scarcity: What to produce How to produce For whom to produce For a market economy, we need to research the following: a) How it works – how does it answer the [...]