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To: John Hunt who wrote (16869)	10/29/1998 6:16:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

World population climbs but AIDS hits Africa hard biz.yahoo.com << The relatively low global birth rate is reflected in a slowing of population rates. Ten years ago the annual increase was some 86 million people or 2.05 percent. Now it is down to about 78 million a year or 1.3 percent. For example, Brazilian families 25 years ago had an average of 6 children but now have three. In Kenya, the birth rate dropped from 8 children a couple to four and in Vietnam the average is now three children, a 50 percent reduction. >> Interesting figures on the drop off in the birth rates, as well as the devastating effect of aids on African life expectancy.

To: John Hunt who wrote (16869)	10/29/1998 8:36:00 AM
From: Cynic 2005	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

<<"Businessmen should not have a free insurance policy every time they take a risk in global markets. The Mexican bailout helped fuel the East Asian crisis that erupted two years later. It encouraged individuals and financial institutions to invest in the East Asian countries, and reassured them about currency risk by the belief that the IMF would bail them out if the unexpected happened and the exchange pegs broke. "By encouraging people to speculate with other people's money, the IMF has been a destabilizing factor in East Asia. Not so much because of the conditions it has imposed on its clients, whether good or bad, as by sheltering private financial institutions from the consequences of unwise investments." >> Agreed on that count. Then again they are calling for: <<..strengthening purchasing power, increasing corporate profitability and encouraging investment.>> Outlaw recessions? Is it possible to clean out excesses in the system with more excesses, like over-investment?