The Economist (June 4)
“You are having too many babies. For decades that crude message was drilled into the minds of Indians by their rulers.” Slogans on schools proclaimed, “Two or three children, enough.” There were even forced sterilizations in the 1970s. “But when Indian school textbooks are reprinted this summer, they will carry a very different message. They will warn not of the dangers of having too many babies, but of the risks of having too few.” The “surprise baby bust” taking place in India “is a warning to the world. It is not just rich places that are becoming less fertile.”
Tags: 1970s, Babies, Baby bust, Children, Fertile, Forced sterilizations, India, Rich places, Schools, Slogans, Surprise, Textbooks, Warning
Investment Week (June 3)
“The OECD revised its 2026 global GDP growth figure down from 3.4% to 2.8%, as prices of energy and other key agricultural and industrial inputs have soared and pushed up inflation.” The organization “provided two scenarios for the global economy in its outlook; a time-limited disruption scenario, in which disruptions are assumed to remain relatively short-lived, and a prolonged disruption scenario, where broader disruptions last well into 2027 and have much longer-lasting negative consequences.”
Tags: Negative consequences
