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Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore, 2nd edition.

The second edition of Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore 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 popul...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swee-Hock, Saw
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: SG : ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • 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 Bettter-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 Consequences17. Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Talent for the Future
  • Appendix B: When Couples Have Fewer Than Two
  • Appendix C: Who is Having Too Few Babies?
  • Appendix D: The Second Long March
  • Appendix E: Prime Mnister Lee Hsien Loong's New Year Message on 1 January 2012
  • Appendix F: Babies?
  • Bibliography