{"id":2722,"date":"2021-06-02T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:03:12","slug":"the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-june-2-2021-day-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-june-2-2021-day-75\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary\u2013 June 2, 2021; Day 75"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we have collated the 10 tricky words\/phrases\/terms from the editorial on China’s three child policy. Go through these words and see how many did you know already. Check their usage as well. This will surely help you to understand the sense the tricky words have conveyed in the editorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Difficult Word\/ Term<\/td>Contextual Sense\/ Definition<\/td><\/tr>
Politburo <\/td>executive committee for communist parties<\/td><\/tr>
Fertility rate <\/td>the ratio between the number of live births in a year and the whole female population of childbearing age<\/td><\/tr>
Exhortation <\/td>an address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something<\/td><\/tr>
Grapple <\/td>to begin to understand or deal with something in a direct or effective way<\/td><\/tr>
Child-rearing <\/td>the process of bringing up a child or children<\/td><\/tr>
Stringent <\/td>(of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting<\/td><\/tr>
Pledge <\/td>commit (a person or organization) by a solemn promise<\/td><\/tr>
Entrench <\/td>establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely<\/td><\/tr>
Revile <\/td>criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner<\/td><\/tr>
Sterilisation <\/td>surgery to make a person or animal unable to produce offspring<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"SBI<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When two is too little: On China’s three child policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s demographic interventions have had unintended social, economic consequences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Six years after abandoning the \u201cone child policy\u201d of 1979, China\u2019s Communist Party has now introduced a \u201cthree child policy\u201d. The move is to \u201cimprove China\u2019s population structure, actively respond to the ageing population, and preserve the country\u2019s human resource advantages\u201d, the party\u2019s Politburo (executive committee for communist parties)<\/strong> said on May 31. The once-in-a-decade population census, released on May 11, may have prompted the latest change, recording 12 million births in 2020, the lowest since 1961. The census said there were 264 million in the 60 and over age group, up 5.44% since 2010 and accounting for 18.70% of the population. After the one child policy, China\u2019s fertility rate (the ratio between the number of live births in a year and the whole female population of childbearing age)<\/strong> fell from 2.75 in 1979 to 1.69 in 2018. Monday\u2019s announcement is as much an acknowledgement as may ever come of the unintended consequences of deeply intrusive<\/strong> family planning measures, going back even before 1979, to Mao\u2019s \u201clater, longer, fewer\u201d campaign, which itself, ironically, followed his exhortations (an address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something)<\/strong> to have more children to build the workforce. The party officially still defends the one child policy \u2014 that it prevented an additional 300 million births. Yet, the urgency of recent measures suggests otherwise, as China grapples (to begin to understand or deal with something in a direct or effective way)<\/strong> with both an ageing and deeply gender-imbalanced population, and demographers\u2019 worst fears of countries getting old before they get rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"SBI<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, China allowed couples to have a second child if either parent was an only child, with the two child policy introduced in 2015. Explaining why the measures did not boost birth rates, economists Jin Zhangfeng, Pan Shiyuan, and Zheng Zhijie wrote last year the two child policy \u201csubstantially increase[d] the number of second-child births\u201d among those \u201cless sensitive to child-rearing (the process of bringing up a child or children) <\/strong>costs\u201d but \u201csubstantially decrease[d] the number of first-child births\u201d attributing<\/strong> it to rising costs. \u201cOther developing countries, even without China\u2019s stringent ((of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting)<\/strong> child-limitation policies, have also experienced declines,\u201d they argued, suggesting \u201cpolicy makers should give priority to reducing the child-rearing costs borne by prospective parents rather than simply relaxing or even abolishing birth quotas\u201d. The latest announcement did acknowledge those broader structural problems, pledging (commit (a person or organization) by a solemn promise)<\/strong> to reduce families\u2019 spending on education. It is, however, by no means an abandoning of China\u2019s family planning policies. The entrenched (establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely)<\/strong> \u2014 and widely reviled (criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner)<\/strong> \u2014 family planning bureaucracy remains in place, and this week\u2019s statement underlined that the \u201ccurrent reward and assistance system and preferential policies\u201d for those following rules continue. Even leaving aside the strong moral argument against intrusive family planning \u2014 enforcement has meant forced abortions, sterilisations (surgery to make a person or animal unable to produce offspring)<\/strong>, and other abuses, some of which are still being reported in parts such as the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region \u2014 China\u2019s experience is a reminder of the unintended social and economic consequences of state-led demographic interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"SBI<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hope you got to know some new words\/phrases which will definitely be useful in the English section of upcoming competitive exams. Wishing you all the best for your preparation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to improve your vocabulary further? Download the Lists of Word-Meanings of Previous Months here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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