Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saw, Swee-Hock, 1931- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fertility, Human > Singapore.
Birth control > Singapore.
Singapore > Population.
Singapore > Population policy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 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.

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