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Hindered growth: the ideology and implications of population assistance (2005)

Aguirre, Maria Sophia ; Hadley, Cecilia A.

Bingley : Emerald

International journal of social economics 32 (2005), S. 783-813

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ISSN: 0306-8293

Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005

Topics: Economics

Notes: Purpose - This paper aims to highlight the role of the United Nations in the formulation and implementation of the current understanding of "population assistance" and examine some of the arguments for "population assistance" in the form of reproductive health care. Design/methodology/approach - It presents the data for global population assistance and briefly compares these figures with data for other developmental sectors, recommending certain policy changes if real development is to be achieved. Findings - During the last decade increasingly large amounts of money have been spent on limiting population growth of underdeveloped countries. Population control is seen as the corner-stone of development and population activities. Thus, population control has become "population assistance," and birth control has become "reproductive health services." Population control is pursued at the expense of women's rights and to the detriment of real economic growth and social improvement. Originality/value - For more than two decades, John Conway O'Brien has written on the importance of ethics for economic growth. In a recent article, he concluded that "although the illuminated may have been activated by the most altruistic of motives, their search for the good society was doomed from the start." This paper attests the validity of his remarks.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03068290510612584

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The effect of dietary protein level on pond water quality and feed utilization efficiency of pacúPiaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887) (2005)

Bechara, José A ; Roux, Juan Pablo ; Ruiz Díaz, Federico J ; [et al.]

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd

Aquaculture research 36 (2005), S. 0

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ISSN: 1365-2109

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition

Notes: The effect of supplemental feeds with different levels of crude protein on pond water quality and food utilization efficiency by pacú (Piaractus mesopotamicus) was evaluated in a semi-intensive culture system. Fish were stocked at a density of one individual per m2, raised for 299 days, and fed isocaloric diets containing soybean meal, blood and bone meal, and yellow maize. Dietary treatments consisted of diets containing 25%, 35%, and 45% crude protein. Ponds receiving the two highest protein levels showed significantly higher values of alkalinity, conductivity and nitrites. High dietary protein diets resulted in no significant improvements in final weight (336.4±77.2, 308.2±92.6 and 368.4±82.2 g, mean±standard deviation, for 25%, 35% and 45% protein levels respectively). Moreover, fish carcass composition was not significantly different among treatments. Instead, significant augmentations in feed conversion ratio (1.36, 1.54 and 1.73 respectively) and reductions in protein retention (35.7%, 33.5% and 29.0% respectively) occurred as protein levels increased. Results indicate that at the lowest protein level, pacú growth rates and carcass composition were similar to the other experimental treatments, with a significant improvement in pond water quality and feed utilization efficiency.