Teaching Comparative Government

While Nigeria is considering a national birth control policy, China seems about to abandon its birth control policy China to scrap population targets, health official says China will not set a population target in the future and will give people more freedom around childbirth, a health official said, in the next step of a gradual loosening of decades of tight population-control policies… Wei Yunpeng, deputy director of the Population Monitoring and Family Development Division of the National Health Commission, was speaking at a conference hosted by his administration and the United Nations Population Fund. Wei’s comments are the latest sign that the government is moving to end decades of restrictive birth-control policies, fuelling speculation that China might announce removing birth limits at an upcoming meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Parliament removed “family planning” policies from the latest draft of a revised civil code scheduled for adoption in 2020, another...

Complications abound, but population growth is a real problem. FG to limit number of children per mother The Federal Government on Tuesday declared that it was working hard to come out with a policy that would limit the number of children that a mother could have in Nigeria. It stated that traditional rulers and other leaders across the country were being engaged as regards this, adding that the move was aimed at addressing one of the “great challenges” in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government. The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, who disclosed this while responding to questions during a session at the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, noted that the country’s population had been identified as one of the great challenges confronting the successful implementation of the ERGP. Ahmed said, “We have been engaging traditional rulers and other leaders. Specifically, we have found out that to be able to address one of the great challenges that we identified ...

How does policy get made in China? Follow the assignment of tasks. Tasks set out for advancing law-based governance in China A total of 98 tasks in advancing law-based governance in China have been assigned to respective units, according to a statement made public recently. The statement came after a meeting on facilitating the tasks set by the Commission for Law-based Governance of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. In legislative affairs, tasks include promoting legislation with a holistic approach to national security, protection of intellectual property rights and key reform areas. In law enforcement, improvements are expected in key sectors including food and drug, work safety, environment protection and public security. The tasks also include reforming civil litigation systems and building a public legal service system. Each task has been allocated to a responsible unit and given specific requirements on its monthly work plan and time table, according to the st...