By AGGREY MUTAMBOMore by this AuthorKenya is set to benefit from a research centre in Nairobi that will aid African countries in training experts on population management. For the Chinese, population can be good or bad, depending on where you stand. Dr Zhang Xuying, the deputy director-general of China’s Centre for Population Development and Research Centre, described how the abnormal Chinese population numbers in the 1970s threatened the survival of the very economy the people depended on. Then, China, now the most populous nation with 1.4 billion people, had a population growth rate of 3 per cent. With a controlled population, the Chinese economy boomed, benefiting from cheap labour from its many people and rising to be the second largest after the United States.

Source: Daily Nation April 18, 2017 21:00 UTC