Issue editor Peter Adamson on why the value of the condom, loop and pill rests not in reducing the quantity of people but in improving the quality of their lives.
June 1980's Issue
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Featured in issue 088
Birth Rights
Bob Hawkins reports from Singapore - where sterilisation laws sail close to compulsion.
- Bob Hawkins
- 1 Jun 1980
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Silkworms and Socialism
Wayne Ellwood looks at the Cuban exodus from the point of view of those who stayed behind.
- Wayne Ellwood
- 1 Jun 1980
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The Great Birth Gamble
Nearly a million women became pregnant today. What happens to them:-
- 1 Jun 1980
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Half the World in Cities
J.B. D’Souza puts forward his plans for making big cities fit to live in.
- 1 Jun 1980
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The Aspiration Bomb
Anuradha Vittachi on why the consumption explosion makes a bigger bang than the ‘population bomb’.
- Anuradha Vittachi
- 1 Jun 1980
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The Cradle and the Grave - The Facts
A global look at life expectancy and what influences people’s chance of survival.
- 1 Jun 1980
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The Fate of Rukmini Prasad
During Indira Gandhi’s ‘Emergency Rule’, Rukmini Prasad was sterilised against her will. Four years later, she gives this interview to the New Internationalist.
- Peter Stalker and Peter Stalker
- 1 Jun 1980
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