The global family planning revolution : : three decades of population policies and programs / / Warren C. Robinson and John A. Ross, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xviii, 470 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm |
Disciplina | 363.909172/4 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RobinsonWarren C. <1928->
RossJohn A. <1934-> |
Soggetto topico |
Population policy
Birth control - Developing countries Contraception - Developing countries Fertility, Human - Developing countries Population |
ISBN |
1-280-94051-4
9786610940516 0-8213-6952-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; FOREWORD: THE FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM REVOLUTION IN PERSPECTIVE; PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND AUTHORS; 1. Overview and Perspective; Part I. Middle East and North Africa; 2. The Evolution of Population Policies and Programs in the Arab Republic of Egypt; 3. Family Planning in Iran, 1960-79; 4. Tunisia: The Debut of Family Planning; 5. Morocco: First Steps in Family Planning; Part II. Europe and Central Asia; 6. Emergence of the Family Planning Program in Turkey; Part III. Latin America and the Caribbean; 7. Family Planning in Chile: A Tale of the Unexpected
8. Against the Odds: Colombia's Role in the Family Planning Revolution 9. Guatemala: The Pioneering Days of the Family Planning Movement; 10. Family Planning and the World Bank in Jamaica; Part IV. East Asia and the Pacific; 11. The Korean Breakthrough; 12. Hong Kong: Evolution of the Family Planning Program; 13. Singapore: Population Policies and Programs; 14. The Emergence of Thailand's National Family Planning Program; 15. Formative Years of Family Planning in Indonesia; 16. The Family Planning Program in Peninsular Malaysia 17. Development of the Philippines' Family Planning Program: The Early Years, 1967-80 Part V. South Asia; 18. Emergence of the Indian National Family Planning Program; 19. Family Planning Programs and Policies in Bangladesh and Pakistan; 20. Early Family Planning Efforts in Sri Lanka; 21. Emergence and Development of Nepal's Family Planning Program; Part VI. Sub-Saharan Africa; 22. Family Planning in Ghana; 23. Family Planning in Kenya in the 1960's and 1970's; Part VII. Conclusions and Lessons for the Future; 24. Family Planning: The Quiet Revolution |
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Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2007 | ||
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The role of diffusion processes in fertility change in developing countries [[electronic resource] ] : report of a workshop / / Holly Reed, Rona Briere, and John Casterline, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (42 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ReedHolly
BriereRona CasterlineJohn B |
Soggetto topico |
Communication in family planning - Developing countries
Fertility, Human - Developing countries |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-08376-7
9786612083761 0-309-51888-1 0-585-05761-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries""; ""DIFFUSION IN THE POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING CONTEXT""; ""DIFFUSION EFFECTS""; ""CHANNELS OF DIFFUSION""; ""DIFFUSION VERSUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE AS EXPLANATIONS OF FERTILITY TRANSITIONS""; ""References""; ""Appendix Workshop Papers"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455918803321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999 | ||
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The role of diffusion processes in fertility change in developing countries [[electronic resource] ] : report of a workshop / / Holly Reed, Rona Briere, and John Casterline, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (42 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ReedHolly
BriereRona CasterlineJohn B |
Soggetto topico |
Communication in family planning - Developing countries
Fertility, Human - Developing countries |
ISBN |
0-309-18462-2
1-282-08376-7 9786612083761 0-309-51888-1 0-585-05761-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries""; ""DIFFUSION IN THE POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING CONTEXT""; ""DIFFUSION EFFECTS""; ""CHANNELS OF DIFFUSION""; ""DIFFUSION VERSUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE AS EXPLANATIONS OF FERTILITY TRANSITIONS""; ""References""; ""Appendix Workshop Papers"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778652703321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999 | ||
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The role of diffusion processes in fertility change in developing countries : report of a workshop / / Holly Reed, Rona Briere, and John Casterline, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (42 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ReedHolly
BriereRona CasterlineJohn B |
Soggetto topico |
Communication in family planning - Developing countries
Fertility, Human - Developing countries |
ISBN |
0-309-18462-2
1-282-08376-7 9786612083761 0-309-51888-1 0-585-05761-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries""; ""DIFFUSION IN THE POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING CONTEXT""; ""DIFFUSION EFFECTS""; ""CHANNELS OF DIFFUSION""; ""DIFFUSION VERSUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE AS EXPLANATIONS OF FERTILITY TRANSITIONS""; ""References""; ""Appendix Workshop Papers"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826327503321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999 | ||
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Socioeconomic determinants of fertility behavior in developing nations [[electronic resource] ] : theory and initial results / / Barbara Entwisle, Albert I. Hermalin, William M. Mason |
Autore | Entwisle Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1982 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (141 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.632091724 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HermalinAlbert I
MasonWilliam M |
Collana | Report / Committee on Population and Demography ; no. 17 |
Soggetto topico | Fertility, Human - Developing countries |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility Behavior in Developing Nations: Theory and Initial Results""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""CHAPTER 1""; ""1.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""The Context of Fertility Behavior""; ""Fertility as a Process""; ""Causality""; ""1.2 OVERVIEW OF THE MODEL""; ""Intermediate Fertility Variables""; ""Child Mortality""; ""Sex Composition""; ""Socioeconomic Variables""; ""Interactions""; ""Variables Omitted From the Model""; ""1.3 THE STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS""; ""Onset""; ""Early Outcomes""; ""Endogenous Socioeconomic Variables""; ""The Adjustment Variables""
""Later Child Mortality""""Contraceptive Use Patterns""; ""Later Fertility""; ""Transitional Contexts""; ""Traditional Contexts""; ""1.4 REDUCED AND SEMIREDUCED FORM IMPLICATIONS OF THE MODEL""; ""The Need for Reduction""; ""Connections With and Between Familiar Variables""; ""Implied and Actual Semireduced Form Equations""; ""Inferences About Coefficient Signs""; ""Child Mortality""; ""LCU""; ""CEB""; ""Child Mortality (CM)""; ""Contraceptive Use (LCU)""; ""Children Ever Born (CEB)""; ""Discussion""; ""1.5 CONCLUSION""; ""The Micro Equations""; ""Hypotheses About Coefficients"" ""CHAPTER 2""""2.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2 THE PROBLEM""; ""2.3 MACRO HYPOTHESES""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Slopes""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Intercepts""; ""2.4 DATA AND VARIABLES EMPLOYED""; ""2.5 ILLUSTRATION OF OPERATIONALIZATION""; ""Macro Comparison""; ""Micro Results for Peru and Korea""; ""Age at First Birth (AFB)""; ""Early Fertility (EF)""; ""Later Fertility (LF)""; ""2.6 MACRO ANALYSIS""; ""Within-Country Differences""; ""Between-Country Variability""; ""AFB and EF Slopes""; ""LF Slopes""; ""Intercepts""; ""2.7 SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION""; ""NOTES""; ""GLOSSARY"" ""REFERENCES"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451475003321 |
Entwisle Barbara | ||
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1982 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Socioeconomic determinants of fertility behavior in developing nations : theory and initial results / / Barbara Entwisle, Albert I. Hermalin, William M. Mason |
Autore | Entwisle Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1982 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages) |
Disciplina | 304.632091724 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HermalinAlbert I
MasonWilliam M |
Collana | Report / Committee on Population and Demography ; no. 17 |
Soggetto topico | Fertility, Human - Developing countries |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility Behavior in Developing Nations: Theory and Initial Results""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""CHAPTER 1""; ""1.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""The Context of Fertility Behavior""; ""Fertility as a Process""; ""Causality""; ""1.2 OVERVIEW OF THE MODEL""; ""Intermediate Fertility Variables""; ""Child Mortality""; ""Sex Composition""; ""Socioeconomic Variables""; ""Interactions""; ""Variables Omitted From the Model""; ""1.3 THE STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS""; ""Onset""; ""Early Outcomes""; ""Endogenous Socioeconomic Variables""; ""The Adjustment Variables""
""Later Child Mortality"" ""Contraceptive Use Patterns""; ""Later Fertility""; ""Transitional Contexts""; ""Traditional Contexts""; ""1.4 REDUCED AND SEMIREDUCED FORM IMPLICATIONS OF THE MODEL""; ""The Need for Reduction""; ""Connections With and Between Familiar Variables""; ""Implied and Actual Semireduced Form Equations""; ""Inferences About Coefficient Signs""; ""Child Mortality""; ""LCU""; ""CEB""; ""Child Mortality (CM)""; ""Contraceptive Use (LCU)""; ""Children Ever Born (CEB)""; ""Discussion""; ""1.5 CONCLUSION""; ""The Micro Equations""; ""Hypotheses About Coefficients"" ""CHAPTER 2"" ""2.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2 THE PROBLEM""; ""2.3 MACRO HYPOTHESES""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Slopes""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Intercepts""; ""2.4 DATA AND VARIABLES EMPLOYED""; ""2.5 ILLUSTRATION OF OPERATIONALIZATION""; ""Macro Comparison""; ""Micro Results for Peru and Korea""; ""Age at First Birth (AFB)""; ""Early Fertility (EF)""; ""Later Fertility (LF)""; ""2.6 MACRO ANALYSIS""; ""Within-Country Differences""; ""Between-Country Variability""; ""AFB and EF Slopes""; ""LF Slopes""; ""Intercepts""; ""2.7 SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION""; ""NOTES""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""REFERENCES"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777447403321 |
Entwisle Barbara | ||
Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1982 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Socioeconomic determinants of fertility behavior in developing nations : theory and initial results / / Barbara Entwisle, Albert I. Hermalin, William M. Mason |
Autore | Entwisle Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1982 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages) |
Disciplina | 304.632091724 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HermalinAlbert I
MasonWilliam M |
Collana | Report / Committee on Population and Demography ; no. 17 |
Soggetto topico | Fertility, Human - Developing countries |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility Behavior in Developing Nations: Theory and Initial Results""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""CHAPTER 1""; ""1.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""The Context of Fertility Behavior""; ""Fertility as a Process""; ""Causality""; ""1.2 OVERVIEW OF THE MODEL""; ""Intermediate Fertility Variables""; ""Child Mortality""; ""Sex Composition""; ""Socioeconomic Variables""; ""Interactions""; ""Variables Omitted From the Model""; ""1.3 THE STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS""; ""Onset""; ""Early Outcomes""; ""Endogenous Socioeconomic Variables""; ""The Adjustment Variables""
""Later Child Mortality"" ""Contraceptive Use Patterns""; ""Later Fertility""; ""Transitional Contexts""; ""Traditional Contexts""; ""1.4 REDUCED AND SEMIREDUCED FORM IMPLICATIONS OF THE MODEL""; ""The Need for Reduction""; ""Connections With and Between Familiar Variables""; ""Implied and Actual Semireduced Form Equations""; ""Inferences About Coefficient Signs""; ""Child Mortality""; ""LCU""; ""CEB""; ""Child Mortality (CM)""; ""Contraceptive Use (LCU)""; ""Children Ever Born (CEB)""; ""Discussion""; ""1.5 CONCLUSION""; ""The Micro Equations""; ""Hypotheses About Coefficients"" ""CHAPTER 2"" ""2.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2 THE PROBLEM""; ""2.3 MACRO HYPOTHESES""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Slopes""; ""Macro Determinants of Micro Intercepts""; ""2.4 DATA AND VARIABLES EMPLOYED""; ""2.5 ILLUSTRATION OF OPERATIONALIZATION""; ""Macro Comparison""; ""Micro Results for Peru and Korea""; ""Age at First Birth (AFB)""; ""Early Fertility (EF)""; ""Later Fertility (LF)""; ""2.6 MACRO ANALYSIS""; ""Within-Country Differences""; ""Between-Country Variability""; ""AFB and EF Slopes""; ""LF Slopes""; ""Intercepts""; ""2.7 SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION""; ""NOTES""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""REFERENCES"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828619303321 |
Entwisle Barbara | ||
Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1982 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spousal agreement on reproductive preferences in sub-Saharan Africa / / Tesfayi Gebreselassie |
Autore | Gebreselassie Tesfayi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Calverton, Maryland USA : , : Macro International Inc., , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 44 pages) |
Collana | DHS analytical studies |
Soggetto topico |
Birth control - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Fertility, Human - Africa, Sub-Saharan Birth control - Developing countries Fertility, Human - Developing countries |
Soggetto genere / forma | Statistics. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910713387303321 |
Gebreselassie Tesfayi | ||
Calverton, Maryland USA : , : Macro International Inc., , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tendencias y políticas de población : informe de un grupo de trabajo, noveno Congreso Mundial de Sociología, Uppsala, Suecia agosto de 1978 / / Víctor L. Urquidi y Jose B. Morelos, compiladores ; [traducción de las ponencias del ingles y el frances al español por Manuel F. Chavarría] |
Edizione | [Primera edición.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Mexico, D.F. : , : El Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Demográficos y de Desarrollo Urbano, , 1982 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 179 pages) : : illustrations |
Disciplina | 304.632098 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MorelosJose B
UrquidiVíctor L |
Soggetto topico |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography
Population policy Fertility, Human Emigration and immigration Fertility, Human - Developing countries Fertility, Human - Latin America |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books. |
ISBN |
607-628-410-2
968-12-0193-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910286417503321 |
Mexico, D.F. : , : El Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Demográficos y de Desarrollo Urbano, , 1982 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The time-travelling economist : why education, electricity and fertility are key to escaping poverty / / Charlie Robertson |
Autore | Robertson Charlie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 274 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
Disciplina | 843.7 |
Soggetto topico |
Electrification - Developing countries
Fertility, Human - Developing countries Functional literacy - Developing countries |
ISBN |
9783030975975
3030975975 9783030975968 3030975967 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Education: No Take Off Without Adult Literacy -- Changes with Education: Purpose and Speed -- Conclusion from 120 Years of Data -- Post-script -- Electricity: Power to the People -- Best Snippet on Electricity: From Prehistoric Fires to LED Lights10 -- Electricity: The Key Table and Graph -- Where Is the World Today in Terms of kWh Electricity Consumption? -- The Power Challenge in Africa -- Asia's Success: Driven by Power -- Power to the People or Just for Businesses? -- Climate Change and the Plunging Cost of Electricity -- Conclusion -- Sex and Money: How Many Babies Are Too Many? -- 3.1 The (Nairobi) Debate About Demographics and Savings -- 3.2 How Many Babies Are Too Many? More than 3.0 -- 3.3 Bank Deposits and Interest Rates -- 3.4 Real Interest Rates and Bank Deposits -- 3.5 Mobile Money and Micro-finance to the Rescue? -- 3.6 How to Fund Investment When Local Savings Are Low -- 3.7 How to Reduce the Fertility Rate? -- 3.7.1 What Can a Government Do? -- 3.8 But Aren't Large Populations a Good Thing? -- 3.8.1 The Protestant Work Ethic Versus Catholicism and Fertility -- 3.9 Conclusion -- Debt: A Debt Crisis Is Probably Unavoidable in a Bid to Create Jobs -- It's Clear Who Wants to Borrow, but Who Wants to Lend? -- So What Will Governments in Low-Income Countries Do? -- So, It's All Good? Probably Not -- Who Should We Be More Optimistic About? -- Currencies and Debt Default -- How Bad Is Default? -- Conclusions -- Demographics and Growth: Who Booms, When? -- Africa and Low-Income Countries -- Looking Ahead -- Africa by 2070 -- Asia and Latin America in 2070 -- Conclusions -- What the Future Holds: Democracy, Corruption, ESG and Emigration -- When Will Democracy Become More Secure?; Emigration: Why Successful Development Will See More Migration, Not Less -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Essays/Compilation of Essays -- Books -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910578691203321 |
Robertson Charlie | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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