A)Do you think that all of today's developing nations will complete the demographic transition and come to enjoy a permanent state of low birth and death rates? 

b) What are some ways in which developed nations can stabilize their population growth in a sustainable manner? 

c) Do more affluent nations have the responsibility to help underdeveloped nations stabilize their population growth?  What are some steps that European and North American nations may take to assist the demographic transition of developing nations?

d) Provide current research that exemplifies and support your analysis into this week's exploration of population growth and transition issues

A)Do you think that all of today's developing nations will complete the demographic transition and come to enjoy a permanent state of low birth and death rates?

 Let us define demographic transition. Demographic transition is a model used to represent the movement of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. From this definition, a country with ideology of an industrialized economic system must adopt to demographic transition. I think that a way for a country to fully develop an industrialized economic system, that country should control the population growth. By staying in a permanent state of low birth and death rates the budget of the country will be more efficient because it will only be allotted to developmental programs rather than giving money to the poor or health care/insurance. 

B) What are some ways in which developed nations can stabilize their population growth in a sustainable manner? 

To address and harness the opportunities of population dynamics for sustainable development, countries should seek to enlarge, not restrict, individual rights. This includes not controlling the numbers of offspring that parents wants but to educate them that having less is having more. Sustainable development seems difficult to fragile states that are characterized by protracted crises, recurrent violent conflict and weak or corrupt governance. Fragile geographies are either the most vulnerable locations within fragile states or those areas in more stable environments that are subject to ongoing conflict and climate effects.  Thus, population trends today are characterized by an increasing divergence across countries and regions. Whereas many of the poorer countries continue to be characterized by rapid population growth, others that are more advanced in their demographic transition are experiencing rapid population ageing and even population decline in some cases. Furthermore, the world is witnessing increasingly complex international migration patterns and many countries continue to experience very high rates of urbanization.

C) Do more affluent nations have the responsibility to help underdeveloped nations stabilize their population growth?  I definitely think that developing countries have an ethical responsibility to help fund programs that will stabilize population growth in developing countries, and encourage sustainability of species and resources globally. In nations where populations increase rapidly, the living conditions are usually very poor. In fact, national policies to lower fertility rates have been introduced in 85 countries (1997). Past interventions have had some effect. The annual rate of population growth in developing countries peaked around 2.53% in the 1967-1968 period. If that rate had continued, the population of developing countries at the beginning of 1989 would have been 4,200 million as against the actual 3,900 million.

What are some steps that European and North American nations may take to assist the demographic transition of developing nations?

A major challenge is to continue to support the developing countries in their developmental and population programs while at the same time intensifying similar activities with the countries in transition. European colonialism was an early wave of globalization that changed the planet and shaped most of the world's current political borders. This early wave of global conquest was fueled by the Industrial Revolution. Colonialism transferred technology, food products, and ideas around the globe in merchant ships that centered on the European power bases of the colonial empires of Europe, mainly Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands. Thus, North American Nations helped In this stage of development countries have strong economies, highly educated citizens, better healthcare, and death rates are low which stabilizes the population.

D) Provide current research that exemplifies and support your analysis into this week's exploration of population growth and transition issues

Based on research, transition is a dynamic historical process, imposing change on almost every element of society. Assessing the progress of a great number of countries during transition is a complex undertaking in any area, including economics. Success in recovering output, however, readily suggests itself as a useful unifying theme for economic assessment, not least because of the importance policymakers in transition economies attach to output growth and its immediacy for the welfare of everyone in those countries. Based on extensive econometric analysis, this article identifies factors that have inhibited or encouraged the expansion of output and points out several lessons for achieving consistent and sustainable economic growth. In addition, an important transition in the economic history of countries occurs when they move from a regime of low prosperity, high child mortality and high fertility to a state of high prosperity, low child mortality and low fertility. Researchers have proposed various theories to explain this demographic transition and its relation to economic growth. In this article, we test the validity of some of these theories by fitting a non-linear dynamic model for the available cross-country data. Therefore, By the year 2050, the world's population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion, up from the current 7.3 billion. Nearly all of that growth will be concentrated in developing countries.