Population in Asia

Population in Asia

This study addresses three separate aspects of population issues, with countries as the units of observation: (a) the demography of Asian populations and the power of polcies to affect fertility and future population size; (b) the design of current interventions to lower fertility through family pla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanderson, Warren C
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Other Authors: Tan, Jee-Peng
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 1995
Series:World Bank regional and sectoral studies
Subjects:
1950-1990
POBLACION
PLANIFICACION FAMILIAR
CRECIMIENTO DEMOGRAFICO
POLITICA FAMILIAR
ASIA
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction and overview of findings
  • 2. Population size and growth in Asian countries
  • 3. Contraceptive prevalence, fertility levels, and population growth
  • 4. Expenditure, finance, and public-private roles in family planning
  • 5. Delivery of family planning services
  • 6. Selected case studies on family planning programs: China, India, Indonesia
  • 7. Future population sizes of Asian countries
  • 8. Coping with population growth and change
  • Appendix A: Parameterization of the total fertility rate
  • Appendix B: Government policies and their effects on the use of family planning services: an analytical framework
  • Appendix C: Supplementary data
  • References
  • Text Tables
  • Text figures
  • Appendix tables
  • Appendix figures.

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