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UNINA9910798790103321 |
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Autore |
Saw Swee-Hock <1931-2021, > |
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Titolo |
Population policies and programmes in Singapore / / Saw Swee-Hock [[electronic resource]] |
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Singapore : , : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, , 2016 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Birth control - Singapore |
Fertility, Human - Singapore |
Singapore Population policy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword / Calhoun, Craig -- Preface / Swee-Hock, Saw -- 1. Background -- 2. A Private Programme -- 3. The Government Programme -- 4. Induced Abortion -- 5. Voluntary Sterilization -- 6. Incentives and Disincentives -- 7. Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice -- 8. Rapid Fertility Decline -- 9. Uplifting Fertility of Better-Educated Women -- 10. Relaxing Antinatalist Policies -- 11. Limited Pronatalist Policies -- 12. Reinforcing Previous Pronatalist Incentives -- 13. Latest Pronatalist Incentives -- 14. Prolonged Below-Replacement Fertility -- 15. Immigration Policies and Programmes -- 16. Demographic Trends and Consequences -- 17. Epilogue -- Appendix A. Talent For The Future / Yew, Lee Kuan -- Appendix B. When Couples Have Fewer Than Two / Swee-Hock, Saw -- Appendix C. Who Is Having Too Few Babies? / Swee-Hock, Saw -- Appendix D. The Second Long March / Tong, Goh Chok -- Appendix E. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's New Year Message on 1 January 2012 -- Appendix F. Babies / Loong, Lee Hsien -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The second edition of <i>Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore</i> presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the government's initiatives to influence the course of fertility, and hence the rate of population growth in the island-state of Singapore since the 1960s. The varied population issues and consequences |
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