In a growing number of countries, average fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels, the numbers necessary to ensure stable population. While concerns about shrinking populations have arisen in the past, the issue now affects almost all regions of the world. In the second installment...
Have fun now: When these Japanese kids grow up, they'll have to work doubly hard - to support themselves and their elders NEW YORK: “Sweetie, please have a baby!” No, this isn’t the gentle plea of a would-be father or eager...
One of the textile industry's oldest problems is again under focus: how to adjust in the face of changing technology, tastes, and economic fundamentals. Politicians are calling, not surprisingly, for a populist solution – protect jobs by raising walls against imports. In a three-part series...
Machines ate jobs: Textile jobs were lost more to automation than to imports
WASHINGTON: This week, textile producers in the US and Europe appear to have taken a step toward victory in their efforts to hold the...
Political drama born of the waves of pro-democratic and anti-democratic influences in the Middle East has created a breeding ground for terrorism, argues analyst Bahey Eldin Hassan. He argues that a wave of democratization has not swept through the Middle East because of a loss of US credibility...
The Arab world is living on the edge of a volcano as a result of the ever volatile interaction of a number of elements: the increasing influence and spread of terrorist groups; escalating Sunni-Shia sectarian violence;...
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un returned home to a hero’s welcome for snagging a meeting with the US president and concessions including suspension of joint US–South Korea military exercises. Donald Trump returned with big promises, suggesting that Kim is “de-nuking the whole place, and he's going...
A new Pakistan: President Donald Trump accepts North Korea as a de facto nuclear state and suspends longstanding joint exercise with South Korea
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un returned home to a hero’s welcome from his historic summit...
在某些国家，因为没有强调计划生育或者因为没能劝阻人们生下他们无力抚养的小孩而导致的悲剧正在逐步显现——同时经济困境更是加深了这一悲剧。 Salama A. Salama在为《金字塔周刊》撰文时指出，在发展中国家，尤其是在存在大量文盲的国家，宣导和教育难以在穷人中深入人心。。对有些文化而言，人口众多的家庭意味着潜在的经济实力，是顺应自然的行为或宗教责任。有太多人在生孩子时并没有考虑到为孩子提够充分的教育、医疗健康照顾和人生指导，这些都需要承担长远的责任并做出各种牺牲。随着美国和其他富裕国家不再为发展中国家的计划生育提供资助，发展中国家的人口又有了增加，并产生新的压力。Salama承认,...
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控制生育率在埃及是一个反复出现的问题。但是出于某种原因，人们对计划生育问题的关注却毫无规律可言：我们总是突然想起它，又突然忘记它。最近，我们又拾起了这忘却已久的话题，并呼吁公众听我们说。我们告诉他们多子同时多福有多么困难。然而很遗憾，公众还有其他问题要去关心，经济困境和无数其他的问题已经让他们忙得焦头烂额。
计划生育并不是你向人们念几篇论文或发表几次演说就能奏效的。你不要以为仅仅动员一些宣传人员和开发一些定制的电视节目就完事了。...
Alarm over the Syrian refugee crisis prompts questions about why Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other wealthy Gulf states that share cultural characteristics do not do more to assist. Amnesty International reports that 3.8 million of the Syrian refugees live in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt....
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The world population will rise to slightly over 9 billion people within the next century. Yet Japan and many European countries face possibly catastrophic population declines. Strikingly low birthrates don’t only threaten economic growth and domestic familial dynamics, but could provoke "...
When governments start running dating programmes, you know that policymakers are worried about low birth rates.
Since the late 1990s Japanese prefectures have been organising hiking trips and cruises for single...
After the fall of communism, did Western politicians and intellectuals chose to paint Islam as the next great threat to civilization? So claims Ibrahim Nafie, chairman of Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper, in a new book. Nafie argues that US policymakers, fueled by racist hysteria and a desire...
Serialised in the daily Al-Ahram and just published in book-form, Ibrahim Nafie 's latest work shows how the West consistently thwarted the Arab and Muslim peoples' desire to coexist and interact peacefully in a...
