How effective are family-planning programs at improving the lives of women? Some perspectives from a vast literature

نویسنده

  • Shareen Joshi
چکیده

In the past 50 years, family-planning programs have been heavily promoted across the developing world. A vast academic literature now tests both the intellectual rationale for these programs, as well as their impact on a wide range of demographic and economic outcomes. In recent years, the availability of new methods and new datasets from the developing world has intensified the academic research on these issues even though the support for family-programs themselves has diminished. This paper examines the economic and demographic literature on family planning programs and summarizes evidence of their impact on fertility as well as additional outcomes such as child mortality, investments in children’s human capital, the economic status of households and the macro-impacts on communities. The goal is to provide policy-makers with an understanding of the strengths, limitations and points of agreement that emerge from this vast literature. PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE DRAFT

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Living Experience Related to Renunciation of Separation among Women Applying for Divorce

Extended Abstract Introducing: social developments at the global level, faced with changes, challenges, issues, and needs. Family has become increasingly threatened by various causes and factors. When family functions, such as the biological, social, cognitive, and emotional functions of one after the other, its members gradually lose the sense of satisfaction, and the gradual decrease in the ...

متن کامل

Living Experience Related to Renunciation of Separation among Women Applying for Divorce

Extended Abstract Introducing: social developments at the global level, faced with changes, challenges, issues, and needs. Family has become increasingly threatened by various causes and factors. When family functions, such as the biological, social, cognitive, and emotional functions of one after the other, its members gradually lose the sense of satisfaction, and the gradual decrease in the ...

متن کامل

A Little Bit of Sugar Helps the Pill Go Down: Resilience, Peace, and Family Planning; Comment on “The Pill Is Mightier Than the Sword”

The article by Potts et al, “The Pill is Mightier than the Sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. Evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...

متن کامل

The Prevalence of Unmet Need and Its Related Factors for Family Planning in Khuzestan Province, Iran: An Epidemiologic Study

Background: Women with unmet need are those who are sexually active in the reproductive age, but do not use any method of contraception despite they do not want more children. These women are at risk of unwanted pregnancies and abortions that can lead to maternal morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and related factors to unmet need for family planning a...

متن کامل

Family planning and women's lives in rural China.

CONTEXT By 1979, China had begun implementing the so-called one-child policy, which severely restricts couples' childbearing. It is important to understand Chinese women's perceptions of how their lives have been affected by this policy and by the use of family planning. METHODS Survey and focus group data collected in 1996 and 1998 from women in three Chinese provinces-Jiangsu, Anhui and Yun...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011