Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SINGAPORE'S POPULATION POLICY
- Control Population Growth
- 'Stop At 2' policy
- Control population and
maintain 2.1 replacement level
- Measure taken to
control population
growth
- No paid
maternity leave
for third child
- No priority for allocation of
government flats
- NO income
tax relief
given
- Delivery charges
increased with
every additional
child
- Encourage Population Growth
- 'The Graduates Mothers Scheme'
- Graduates mothers
will produce smarter
children
- Should have more children to
increase chances
- New generation workforce being
more educated
- This scheme is
introduced on 1984
- Encourage marriages
and have more
children
- Feedbacks: Not treated
equally
- Result: Scheme withdrawn
a year later
- '3 or more if
you can
afford it'
- Changes
the policy
in 1987
- Measures to
increase
birth rate
- Medisave
to pay for
first three
children
- Equalised
medical
benefits
- Grandparents
caregiver
relief
- 5-Day
work for
Civil
Service
- Extended
Maternity
Leave
- Received great feedbacks from people
- Attract foreign
talents to increase
population
- Create more jobs
and increase
productivity
- Prepare for an Ageing Population
- Problems:
- Demand for better
healthcare and social
services
- Smaller and weaker
security forces
- Reduction in
competitiveness among
industries
- Strain and stress on
working population
- 'Senior citizens as assets to society'
- Have valuable skills,
knowledge, talents & work
experience
- Add value to public and
private organisations
- Help boosts family life
- 'Many Helping Hands' Approach
- Plays a part in helping nation
- Individual responsibilty
- Eat Healthy and
exercise regularly
- BE financially
prepared for old
life
- Family support
- Senior Citizens'
Week held since
November 1979
- Grandparents
Day celebrated in
November
- Government Support
- Tribunal for
maintenance of
parents
- Tax Relief
- Central
Provident Fund
(CPF)
- Public Housing
Scheme
- Community help
- Home Nursing Foundation for elders
- Help remain physically and mentally active
- Why a need to increase population growth?
- Unattractive to
multinational companies
- Not able to produce
enough talented
people
- Difficult and expensive to
recruit Singaporeans
- Less attractive due
to smaller
consumer market
- Grow in
Ageing
Population
- More older
people than
younger
generation
- More resources needed to
take care them
- Defence
- Fewer men recruited
for National Service
- Weaken Singapore's Defence
system
- Economy weaken,
administration suffers
and society decline
- Considerations of
having more children:
- Cost of bringing up
children is high
- Increase in
medical care
costs
- People
being too
self-centred
- 2004: Lowest birth rate of
35100 babies