English fertility heads south: Understanding the recent decline

On the Prospects for Endless Fertility Decline in South Asia

In the demographic literature, the semantics of fertility decline have led to some interesting confusion. In particular, confusion has been caused by the tendency to use interchangeably the terms “global fertility decline” and “global convergence in fertility”. But the two are not the same thing at all. While it is true that it now appears that the whole world has embarked on a process of ferti...

Fertility in Transition: Understanding the Fertility Decline in Russia of the 1990s

Between 1989 and 1999 the total fertility rate in Russia declined from 2.01 to 1.16, one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and substantially below the level of population replacement of 2.1 children per woman. Was this decline in fertility caused by the economic collapse that accompanied Russia’s transition from communism in this period? Is the decline only temporary, with women simply...

Fertility decline in Bangladesh: toward an understanding of major causes.

Bangladesh has undergone a considerable decline in fertility, despite the absence of conditions believed to be necessary for such reproductive changes. Indeed, Bangladesh is the only one among the world's twenty poorest countries where such a change has occurred. The paper examines the nature of fertility transition in Bangladesh, looks at the trends in contraceptive use and fertility, and iden...

Understanding the remarkable decline in stroke mortality in recent decades.

Citrus Sudden Decline Disease in the South of Kerman Province

Azadvar M, Alizadeh HR, Najafinia M, Safarnejad MR  and  Esfandiari S (2019) Citrus sudden decline disease in the south of Kerman province. Plant Pathology Science 8(2): 31-37. DOI: 10.2982/PPS.8.2.31   During recent years, the newly emerging disease, citrus sudden decline (CSD) has destroyed many of citrus trees grafted onto bael rootstock in the south of Kerman Province. The disease is caus...