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Ruben Eganyan. `Complex measures are required to change demographic
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July 12 2013
According to UN projections, at the best 3 million people will live in
Armenia in 2050, at the worst - 1.5 million. During the last ten years, at
least 320 thousand people irrevocably left our country, and each year 35-45
thousand children are born, instead of 90 thousand in 1980. What methods
can be used to promote the growth of births and immigration stopped, which
is more urgent, stopping immigration, or stimulating the morbidity growth?
To these questions of `Aravot', the demographer Ruben Eganyan answered,-
`If we assess in the sense of urgency, I think, that parallel steps should
be made, because the factors and the causes of both outflow of people and
decrease in the number of births are the same. If we somehow increase only
morbidity without changing the situation in the country when there are no
jobs, when there is a complicated political and economic situation, it
means that we give birth to people who will be emigrated tomorrow, leave
our country. If people have no chance to realize themselves, they will
leave =85 So, first of all, the situation should be improved in all levels,
there should be so much significant improvement that the feeling of
desperateness in people disappears. A complex treatment is required. People
must realize that our country has future, we can live, there is a freedom,
opportunities =85 if it happens, less people will leave, and it will solve
dual problem, on the one hand, people will have children here, on the other
hand, it would be easier to conduct supportive measures for morbidity.' To
our questions whether the actions taken by the government for promoting the
birth growth, increase in welfare for the third child, etc., have left any
impression, Mr. Eganyan answered,- `I think that these steps are not
serious, they have no significant impact on the situation. What do you
think, what difference can the money given for the first and the second
child, AMD 50 thousand, and AMD 400 thousand for the third child make? Do
you know of any serious person who will give birth to the first and the
second child, and then the third one for AMD 430 thousand? This program is
also somehow dangerous, because not serious people can go for it and we
will later have social problems, because the government will have to take
care of the children for whom their parents do not take care of.'
Melania Barseghyan
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/07/12/155417/
pictures' (Video)
July 12 2013
According to UN projections, at the best 3 million people will live in
Armenia in 2050, at the worst - 1.5 million. During the last ten years, at
least 320 thousand people irrevocably left our country, and each year 35-45
thousand children are born, instead of 90 thousand in 1980. What methods
can be used to promote the growth of births and immigration stopped, which
is more urgent, stopping immigration, or stimulating the morbidity growth?
To these questions of `Aravot', the demographer Ruben Eganyan answered,-
`If we assess in the sense of urgency, I think, that parallel steps should
be made, because the factors and the causes of both outflow of people and
decrease in the number of births are the same. If we somehow increase only
morbidity without changing the situation in the country when there are no
jobs, when there is a complicated political and economic situation, it
means that we give birth to people who will be emigrated tomorrow, leave
our country. If people have no chance to realize themselves, they will
leave =85 So, first of all, the situation should be improved in all levels,
there should be so much significant improvement that the feeling of
desperateness in people disappears. A complex treatment is required. People
must realize that our country has future, we can live, there is a freedom,
opportunities =85 if it happens, less people will leave, and it will solve
dual problem, on the one hand, people will have children here, on the other
hand, it would be easier to conduct supportive measures for morbidity.' To
our questions whether the actions taken by the government for promoting the
birth growth, increase in welfare for the third child, etc., have left any
impression, Mr. Eganyan answered,- `I think that these steps are not
serious, they have no significant impact on the situation. What do you
think, what difference can the money given for the first and the second
child, AMD 50 thousand, and AMD 400 thousand for the third child make? Do
you know of any serious person who will give birth to the first and the
second child, and then the third one for AMD 430 thousand? This program is
also somehow dangerous, because not serious people can go for it and we
will later have social problems, because the government will have to take
care of the children for whom their parents do not take care of.'
Melania Barseghyan
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/07/12/155417/