The government of Singapore has been actively promoting and encouraging their people to have more babies. That is to say that the population of Singapore is not growing at an expected rate, most probably slow and also the fact that the population of Singapore is aging. In fact, 1 out of every 12 Singaporeans are aged 65 or above (http://www.mcys.gov.sg/successful_ageing/index.html). There is a dire need to find a remedy to counter this worrisome trend. If it is not done as promptly as possible, Singapore may find itself lacking in terms of not only human manpower, but more detrimentally, human resource and talent. Humans are every country's natural resource. For a country as small as Singapore, that is even more so.
The government has implemented incentivising policies to encourage people to have more babies through the use of work leaves, monetary grants and what not? However the rate of growth is not as fast as required and the population is not increasing at a speed and velocity which would be essential for the future of the country.
From my perspective, it is a little bit difficult to do so with the dawn of Globalisation. The world economies are becoming less and less segregated and they are becoming more and more integrated. Jobs from the MDCs are being exported to LDCs for a fraction of the price. Competition is becoming more intense, whether in the corporate world or the business world. However, globalisation brings with it major benefits in the form of opportunities. With the full fledged power of the Information Age, people are becoming more and more sophisticated and look for more flamboyant lifestyles to suit their ever growing want for a higher level of affluence.
The call for more babies will be 'obstacle-ised' by this advent of globalisation. People would more rather pursue career opportunities than settle down at night to make love. In a conservative Asian state like Singapore, this is very much so. However, if the government were to address this problem, another essential arm of their armada of encouragements would be to promote sex. Promote the joy of having sex, promote books on sex, encourage newly wedded couples to go for sexual sensation courses, programmes or what not?
The point is, couples need to have more sex, but from the way i see it (not that i have visually experienced their inadequacy), they do not. Moreover, conservative people do not know the intricacies of sex, of which i will not go into here, of which can be summarised as the finer details of the process. The government has to promote sex. Simple as that. It cannot be said with more importance. They have to go all out to promote safe, passionate, morally motivated sex. However they would have to be careful as to not stray into the part of sex which some term as 'fucking'. That word connotates a casualness and citizens in the land might be put off by its immorality. The government has to incentivise this area in addition to their whole armory of incentives to boost the population growth of Singapore to finally be able to get Singaporeans to 'have more babies'.
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