- 主页
- A-Z 检索出版物
- Asia-Pacific Population Journal
- Previous Issues
- Volume 21, Issue 1, 2007
Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 21, Issue 1, 2007
Volume 21, Issue 1, 2007
Issued three times a year, the Asia-Pacific Population Journal is an invaluable resource containing opinions and analysis by experts on important issues related to population. It provides a medium for the international exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, technical information and data on all aspects of population.
Language:
英语
-
-
Will HIV/AIDS levels in Asia reach the level of sub-Saharan Africa?
作者: John C. CaldwellThe short answer to the question posed by the paper’s title is “no”, although any disease that kills millions should be combated with all the means available. I first addressed this question in an editorial in Social Science and Medicine a decade ago (Caldwell, 1995) and little has changed since then. That view is supported by the evidence found in major recent reports upon which this viewpoint is based (Stanecki, 2004; UNAIDS/ Read More
-
-
-
Potential for reducing child and maternal mortality through reproductive and child health intervention programmes: An illustrative case study from India
作者: Minja Kim Choe and Jiajian ChenIn September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York, leaders of the world’s Governments signed the Millennium Declaration and committed themselves to a series of goals and targets that came to be known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Goals include reducing under-five mortality by two thirds (Goal 4) and reducing maternal mortality ratio by three quarters (Goal 5) between 1990 and Read More
-
-
-
Readiness, willingness and ability to use contraception in Bangladesh
作者: Haider Rashid Mannan and Roderic BeaujotIn his frequently quoted article, Coale (1973) proposes that one weakness of the demographic transition theory is that it indicates a high degree of modernization as sufficient to cause a fall of fertility, without indicating the degree of modernization that is necessary. By summarizing the findings of historical studies of European communities, Coale proposed three broad conditions necessary for fertility transition. He argued that m Read More
-
-
-
Singapore’s family values: Do they explain low fertility?
To the Government of Singapore, the country’s declining marriage and fertility rates are serious national problems. It believes that those trends will have negative consequences for economic growth and Singapore’s overall quality of life in the future as Singapore faces a “greying population”. In 2003, there were 21,962 marriages registered, lower than 2002 (23,189), the 1990s (average 24,000) and the 1980s (average 23,000) ( Read More
-
-
-
International labour recruitment: Channelling Bangladeshi labour to east and south-east Asia
作者: Lian Kwen Fee and Mizanur RahmanInternational labour migration in Asia has experienced the most rapid growth in the last few decades. There are two major destination regions for labour migrants in Asia: Middle East and East and South-East Asia. In addition to countries of the Middle East, since the early 1980s we observe a sustained growth of foreign manpower in the prosperous countries of East and South-East Asia, particularly Singapore, Malaysia, the Re Read More
-
Volumes & issues
-
Volume 32
-
Volume 31
-
Volume 30
-
Volume 28
-
Volume 26
-
Volume 29
-
Volume 27
-
Volume 25
-
Volume 24
-
Volume 23
-
Volume 22
-
Volume 21
-
Volume 20
-
Volume 19
-
Volume 18
-
Volume 17
-
Volume 16
-
Volume 15
-
Volume 14
-
Volume 13
-
Volume 12
-
Volume 11
-
Volume 10
-
Volume 9
-
Volume 8
-
Volume 7
-
Volume 6
-
Volume 5
-
Volume 4
-
Volume 3
-
Volume 2
-
Volume 1
Most Read This Month
Article
content/journals/15644278
Journal
10
5
false
zh
