are you confused about rape and intercourse also?

I terminated an unplanned pregnancy
You had an abortion
She committed foeticide

You are right though, in that foeticide is used when we are critical of the abortion, especially when girls are aborted for being girls.

China has invested in education as have many south east asian neighbours. We can’t say the same for South Asia – the potential for brilliant engineers etc can only be realised if you can invest in a universal education system for the country as a whole. India still has some way to go.

Demographics play a much bigger part in the Chinese economic growth ‘miracle’ which, before long, will be exposed and falter as per their ‘One Child’ policy- no kids today means no one to manufacture our goods and export them to us tomorrow.”

Careful there Nav, your beginning to sound like my grandpa, an ardent nationalist from the old country : )

That being said may Chinese are also pretty brilliant, one only needs to see any university in the US where the graduate depts of engineering are full of FOB Chinese and Indians.

the population bulge /growing youth population in South Asia is the region’s biggest asset – without it, they may not be able to compete in the war of talent which economists say is where globalisation is at today.

Erroneous.

Their comparative advantage lies not in their population swell but in the fact that the Indians have brilliant scientists, medics, Information Technology experts and world-class entrepreneurs amongst them.

Demographics play a much bigger part in the Chinese economic growth ‘miracle’ which, before long, will be exposed and falter as per their ‘One Child’ policy- no kids today means no one to manufacture our goods and export them to us tomorrow.

Would you not expect that value of women in India and China to increase substantially when he have hordes of unmarried bachelors? I am surprised it has already not happened.

Fortunately, this problem is only this severe in parts of India. Hopefully the country as whole can stabilize itself.

http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/indias-sex-ratio-a-sad-state-of-affairs/

Sorry about that, a genuine oversight.

Should be an easy one for the market to correct, eh?
..on the other hand, along with 70million single unemployed chinese men, there would be a newer version of the suicide bomb developed by then…
On a 3rd limb, basic education correlates with staving off population growth.

@ #2: china already graduates far more students than there are jobs; what’s wrong with countries of more than a billion people coming down? Even in proto-fascist [wrt castes] india, the lower orders are no longer so quiescent I’m glad to hear – ‘can’t get the staff, these days..’

It would be ever more interesting to see if both China and India lose their comparative advantage in demographics- the population bulge /growing youth population in South Asia is the region’s biggest asset – without it, they may not be able to compete in the war of talent which economists say is where globalisation is at today. Economics isn’t usually a good way to promote gender rights, but seems to me that it is a good enough way to convince governments of South Asia to stamp out infanticide through stringent campaigns on awareness raising than ever before. Otherwise they won’t be able to compete in the global economy.

However since when does one caste wholly occupy “one area of punjab”?