Fertility Transition In The Developing World

Author : John Bongaarts,Dennis Hodgson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9783031118401

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Fertility Transition in the Developing World by John Bongaarts,Dennis Hodgson Pdf

This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin America, and Africa since the mid-20th century. In the 1950s contraceptive use was rare and women typically spend most of their reproductive years bearing and rearing children. By 2020 fertility and contraceptive use in Asia and Latin America reached levels commonly observed in the developed world. Africa’s fertility is still high, but transitions have started in all countries. This monograph is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of these trends and their determinants, covering changes in reproductive behaviour (e.g., use of contraception and abortion), preferences (e.g., desire to limit and space births) and the role of socioeconomic development (e.g., education). The role of government policies and in particular family planning programs is discussed in depth. Particular attention is given to provide a balanced assessment of several political and scientific controversies that have beset the field. As such this book provides an interesting read for a wide audience of undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and public health policy makers.

Author : Calvin Goldscheider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429715556

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Fertility Transitions, Family Structure, And Population Policy by Calvin Goldscheider Pdf

Focuses on fertility and family transitions in selected Third World countries, exploring critical aspects of the relationship between population and development. The essays examine population processes as they unfold and develop over time, highlighting the need to go beyond economic explanations and identifying the priorities among social structura

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309064781

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The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

This report summarizes presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Social Processes Underlying Fertility Change in Developing Countries, organized by the Committee on Population of the National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, D.C., January 29-30, 1998. Fourteen papers were presented at the workshop; they represented both theoretical and empirical perspectives and shed new light on the role that diffusion processes may play in fertility transition. These papers served as the basis for the discussion that is summarized in this report.

Author : G. W. Jones,R. M. Douglas,J. C. Caldwell,R. M. D'Souza
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191584510

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The Continuing Demographic Transition by G. W. Jones,R. M. Douglas,J. C. Caldwell,R. M. D'Souza Pdf

From the perspective of human society, one of the most significant occurrences of the twentieth century has been the demographic transition —- the movement from tragic and wastefully high death and birth rates to low rates in many countries. Many other countries, however, are still at only the early or intermediate stages of this process. In these countries, means need to be found to accelerate the transition. This book brings new evidence to bear on aspects of the demographic trasition, with contributions from leading demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians. The book ranges widely over the history and current experience of both developed and developing countries, with particular emphasis on Asia and Africa. The new field of anthropological demography is strongly represented, with contributions challenging much conventional wisdom.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309076104

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Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

This volume is part of an effort to review what is known about the determinants of fertility transition in developing countries and to identify lessons that might lead to policies aimed at lowering fertility. It addresses the roles of diffusion processes, ideational change, social networks, and mass communications in changing behavior and values, especially as related to childbearing. A new body of empirical research is currently emerging from studies of social networks in Asia (Thailand, Taiwan, Korea), Latin America (Costa Rica), and Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Ghana). Given the potential significance of social interactions to the design of effective family planning programs in high-fertility settings, efforts to synthesize this emerging body of literature are clearly important.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309061919

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Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

This volume assesses the evidence, and possible mechanisms, for the associations between women's education, fertility preferences, and fertility in developing countries, and how these associations vary across regions. It discusses the implications of these associations for policies in the population, health, and education sectors, including implications for research.

Author : Peter Hess
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038483546

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Population Growth and Socioeconomic Progress in Less Developed Countries by Peter Hess Pdf

This timely study examines fertility rates and their trends and determinants in less-developed countries by testing an empirical, interdisciplinary model of the fertility transition. In light of the current official position of the United States on population and development, the policy implications of the study are timely. According to some experts, interrupting the spiral of rapid growth and attendant economic and ecological deterioration now rivals nuclear disarmament in importance on the international agenda. Among the questions investigated include: Are there identifiable traits for developing nations that have reduced fertility? Has development become the best contraceptive? Have some development strategies been more conducive to lowering fertility? Do family planning programs have significant impacts on fertility?

Author : Ghazi M. Farooq,George B. Simmons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349073054

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Fertility in Developing Countries by Ghazi M. Farooq,George B. Simmons Pdf

Author : O.G. Simmons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781468455144

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Perspectives on Development and Population Growth in the Third World by O.G. Simmons Pdf

Until the early to mid-1970s, social scientists in the fields of population and development were largely going their own ways. Demographers relied almost exclusively on demographic transition theory as their para digm for understanding the role of development in population change and fertility decline. Conversely, most development economists and other specialists were certainly aware of the constraints placed upon development objectives by population growth. However, the main de velopment theories paid little attention to population and the implica tions of population growth for development. Indeed it was not until after the World Population Conference in Bucharest in 1974 that the interaction of population and development became a serious and pur posive theme for social scientific study. Accordingly, since about the mid-1970s, an extensive literature in the field of population and develop ment has been generated. And in 1975, under the auspices of The Popu lation Council, the journal Population and Development Review was found ed, a journal which in the past decade has developed into the premier publication in the world for work in this area. But our understanding of development as it refers to change in Third World countries remained fragmented. Moreover, our understanding of the linkages and interac tions between population and development was very limited. It is in this regard that Ozzie Simmons's Perspectives on Development and Population Growth in the Third World will certainly have an impact.

Author : Robert Repetto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135992460

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Economic Equality and Fertility in Developing Countries by Robert Repetto Pdf

This book briefly reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility in developed and developing countries. He presents a conceptual framework to examine how fertility responds to changes in the distribution of household income. The analysis of data from Puerto Rico, Korea, and rural India is carefully executed, and conclusive policy implications are discussed. Originally published in 1979

Author : Ravi Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UOM:39015024912894

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Socio-economic Development and Fertility Decline by Ravi Sharma Pdf

Author : Samuel Agyei-Mensah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313387685

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Fertility Decline in Developing Countries, 1960-1997 by Samuel Agyei-Mensah Pdf

With the emergence of fertility declines in the greater part of the developing world, study of the phenomenon has increased profoundly over the last three decades, and a voluminous amount of literature has emerged. Yet our knowledge of the decline is scattered in numerous publications, making sources difficult to find. This bibliography provides a guide to the literature on fertility decline in Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It will be an invaluable asset for population experts and students wishing to do research on fertility decline. Covering the literature from 1960 to 1997, the book draws on extensive sources including books, articles in leading population journals, research papers, and dissertations. The opening chapter covers the literature on theories and concepts underlying fertility decline. The next three chapters are devoted to the major geographical areas—Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa—and the final chapter looks at general literature on fertility declines in developing countries.

Author : Allan M. Findlay,Anne Findlay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134963379

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Population and Development in the Third World by Allan M. Findlay,Anne Findlay Pdf

Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate, for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers also have long-reaching effects on those left behind. The rapid growth of Third World populations has often incorrectly been identified as the major force preventing more rapid economic development. Population pressure has been known to generate technological breakthroughs. Their final chapter examines family planning programmes, and concludes by asking who benefits most from population policies and questioning the right of developed countries to advocate family planning programmes for Third World nations.

Author : W. Penn Handwerker
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040909504

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Women's Power and Social Revolution by W. Penn Handwerker Pdf

In this provocative volume, Handwerker advances the thesis that the key factor in revolutionary social change accompanying industrialization is the change in women's power relationships with their family. The author draws upon ethnographic, demographic and survey research on Barbados where industrial revolution and the transition from high to low fertility rates has occured quickly and recently. He compares his West Indian data with cases from the modern Third World and from England's own industrial revolution. Handwerker challenges many of the tenets of Third World modernization theory and fertility planning policy and suggests that providing women with resources through education and employment may be the best method of f

Author : Ghazi Mumtaz Farooq,Deborah S. DeGraff
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Demography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041030292

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Fertility and Development by Ghazi Mumtaz Farooq,Deborah S. DeGraff Pdf