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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798790103321

Autore

Saw Swee-Hock <1931-2021, >

Titolo

Population policies and programmes in Singapore / / Saw Swee-Hock [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, , 2016

ISBN

981-4762-20-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

363.96095957

Soggetti

Birth control - Singapore

Fertility, Human - Singapore

Singapore Population policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



associated with the prolonged below-replacement fertility are discussed in detail. The strength of the book lies in the author's intimate familiarity with the subject acquired through some personal involvement in the formulation of population policies for the country.