On the Prospects for Endless Fertility Decline in South Asia
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چکیده
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 fertility decline, it does not follow from this that the whole world is headed to exactly the same eventual fertility levels or that all societies do/will reach eventual low fertility by the same means. There is sufficient variation even within the countries currently in “post-transition” to belie this conclusion.
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