Thursday, August 27, 2009

Overpoulation in Pakistan

I became interested in the issue of overpopulation in Pakistan after I watched report program on television about how the overpopulation can threaten the environmental condition and lead to bad things, for example, poor education, poor health, and poor economic resources. As we know, poverty is on the increase in Pakistan. Therefore, most young people in Pakistan emigrate from their country to search for good jobs and better lives. For example, the large majority of immigrants in England is from Pakistan. As a result, the government of Pakistan should solve the issue of overpopulation. Some people think that if Pakistan increases its population, Pakistan will improve its economic condition. In fact, overpopulation leads to a bad economic climate. Therefore, people become unemployed.

In my research paper, I would like to argue that overpopulation leads to a bad environmental condition and bad economic resources. First, the government of Pakistan should educate people to take responsibility to help the environmental condition and the economic climate by making a program to encourage women to know about the modern contraceptives. Second, the government of Pakistan should support the private sector to control the issue of population by operating businesses in rural areas. Finally, the government of Pakistan should improve the economic climate. As a result, they can control the country to have sufficient money for their population. I found a variety of articles that tell about how over population can lead to environmental degradation and poor economic resources. Moreover, I had a hard time finding an article against my argument, but I found it. Most articles discuss how the government can control overpopulation by educating people, supporting the private sector, and improving the economic climate.

First, in order to control overpopulation the government of Pakistan should make a good strategy to control overpopulation in Pakistan by educating young people. The government of Pakistan should build the infrastructure in rural areas such as schools and hospitals. As a result, people can find places to educate them. According to a SAFTA report, that the less developed countries like Pakistan have poor infrastructure in rural areas (Ashraf, 2006,). Moreover, the government of Pakistan should get support from the mass media to educate people about the issue of population by making educational programs. According to the Ministry of Population Welfare in Pakistan, “Advocacy programmers will utilize all channels of communication particularly the media, interpersonal communication and mass education to convey the macro and micro effects of runaway population growth, “(2004). The government of Pakistan should support the Ministry of Education to make rules by educating young people until they finish high school. Therefore, the government of Pakistan should provide the infrastructure in every part in Pakistan to help people get education.

In addition, in order to control overpopulation in Pakistan, the government should support the private sector to operate their businesses in rural areas. Therefore, population can have all services in their areas. If people can have better access to family planning services in rural areas, they will not migrate to the urban areas. In the word of the Asian Development Bank, “The private sector in Pakistan consists of millions of privately owned farms, thousands of small and medium enterprises, extensive service sector providers, and the informal sector providing goods and services, “(News International, 2001,Prer6). Moreover, the government of Pakistan should support the private sectors by giving permission to produce the contraceptive for the women in Pakistan. As a result, the women can afford the price of the contraceptives and know easily about it. The government of Pakistan should support the private sector to make a program to help family planning by training people in their companies. Therefore, the government of Pakistan should work together to control overpopulation by letting people have better accesses to family planning services in every place in Pakistan.

Finally, in order to control overpopulation in Pakistan the government should improve the economic resources. As we know, in the less developed countries like Pakistan overpopulation leads to a bad economic climate because they do not have sufficient money to hire their population. If the government of Pakistan is open to globalization, the companies from overseas will come to operate their businesses in Pakistan. As a result, the government will improve the economic condition. Moreover, the government of Pakistan should divide the money equally in all areas. If they do this will have a good economic condition in every place. The government of Pakistan should make Pakistan safe for investors. As we know, Pakistan still has problem countries at its borders. Therefore, the government of Pakistan should make a good relationship with countries at the border. As a result, Pakistan can attract the investors to operate their business. The Asian Development Bank points out,” the Good governance includes improved strategies and management for external and domestic debt; medium-term budget and expenditure management and financing for pro-poor public services; restructuring of intergovernmental relations, including devolution and civil service reform; access to justice, including legal, judicial, and police reform; and capital markets development” (2001,prpre5). The government of Pakistan should find a good strategy to improve the economic climate.

Some people claim that an increase in the population will develope the urban area because they think population increases the income in the urban areas. Moreover, they think that the increase the population in the big cites will improve both the private sectors and public sectors. According to the government of Pakistan, “There is a rapidly growing population and associated urban development” (2007). In fact, the overpopulation leads to bad economic climate. Therefore, people become unemployed. Moreover, the truth is that overpopulation leads to poor education, poor health, and poor the economic resource. As we know, overpopulation can damage the environment and bring a lot of disease because the Pakistan is a small country. The less developed countries like Pakistan the governments do not care about the issue of overpopulation. Therefore, the overpopulation damages the environmental condition by misusing the land. According to the Social Entrprise Development Center,” A large population is one of the main causes of a high level of population “ (n.d. prpr5). As result, the government of Pakistan should stare look at the population and solve the issue of overpopulation.

In conclusion, for these reasons and many other reasons the government of Pakistan should start to find a solution to control the overpopulation by educating people, supporting the private sector, and improving the economic climate. As a result, people will get social welfare and have a good economic condition. Moreover, the government of Pakistan can help population to understand how overpopulation threatens the environment and take responsibility about the issue of overpopulation.

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