{"id":631276,"date":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/03\/14\/high-birth-rates-may-be-the-most-lasting-unforeseen-consequences-post-2011\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","slug":"high-birth-rates-may-be-the-most-lasting-unforeseen-consequences-post-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/03\/14\/high-birth-rates-may-be-the-most-lasting-unforeseen-consequences-post-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"High birth rates may be the most lasting unforeseen consequences post-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-06\"><\/a> <strong>The 700k jobs figure Lall quotes is probably low: The riskiest legacy of the Arab Spring may be the \u201cbaby boom\u201d that ensued in Egypt<\/strong>, Mark Champion and Tarek El Tablawy write in a remarkably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-13\/the-arab-spring-s-riskiest-legacy-may-be-egypt-s-baby-boom\">on point piece for Bloomberg<\/a>. \u201cHigher birth rates may prove the most lasting of many unforeseen consequences of Egypt\u2019s Arab Spring \u2026 <strong>The country added about 11 mn people\u2014the population of Greece\u2014in a span of just seven years<\/strong>, as fertility surged to 3.5 children per woman rather than continuing its gradual decline to the government\u2019s target of 2.1.\u201d The recent baby boom guarantees rising numbers of job seekers for at least a generation to come, they write. Deputy Health Minister Tarek Tawfik says the increased birth rate is \u201cscary,\u201d noting that there were 10.3 mn Egyptians under the age of four in 2016, up from 8.8 mn in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The issue began before the revolution in 2011<\/strong>, Tawfik says. He attributes the trigger for a the rise in birth rates to 2005, when USAID began winding down generous funding for family planning programs in Egypt. \u201cThe decades-long decline in the fertility rate stalled at a low of 3.0 children per woman, in 2008,\u201d Champion and El Tablawy note. They say that Egypt now \u201crisks moving further into the category of youth-heavy nations that are less likely to democratize and more prone to authoritarian rule and political violence,\u201d citing research on the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 700k jobs figure Lall quotes is probably low: The riskiest legacy of the Arab Spring may be the \u201cbaby boom\u201d that ensued in Egypt, Mark Champion and Tarek El Tablawy write in a remarkably on point piece for Bloomberg. \u201cHigher birth rates may prove the most lasting of many unforeseen consequences of Egypt\u2019s Arab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-631276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"3190dffc-6f4a-49e5-86cf-a2dc5591e7ad","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"7e48eac7-58c1-416a-8998-8539759c16a2","story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2018\/3\/507.png","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[631260],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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