FERTILITY AND FAMILY PLANNING: A WORLD VIEW

Family Planning and Fertility in India

Family Planning, Declining Fertility and the Convergence of Family Policies

Over the last fifty years, reproductive behaviour has become widely accepted as a major concern of governments. In the 1960s, governments were urged to strive for ‘zero population growth’ but in 1968, the United Nations began viewing family planning as a human rights issue rather than focusing only on population control and demographics. By the 1990s, UN documents were empowering women in matte...

Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines

This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines using the series of nationally representative Family Planning Surveys conducted annually since 1999 augmented by census and other survey data. Its contribution lies on providing recent and nationally representative empirical evidence on the long running but largely unresolved de...

Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility

The extent to which China’s family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is debatable. The disagreement is partly sourced from the different ways of measuring the policy. Most existing measures, constructed on the policy history, generally, do not include complete secular and cross-sectional policy variations, fail to heterogeneously reflect people’s exposure...

Fertility and family planning in rural northern Thailand.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, when fertility was declining in Thailand as a whole, especially rapid declines occurred in Northern Thailand, but they did not occur uniformly in all the region's provinces. The Northern Thailand Fertility Study, initiated in 1975 to study the reported fertility changes, gathered data in two provinces: Chiang Mai, where fertility decline has been quite rapid...