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Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. The Asian demographic transition and its causes. Social context and fertility decline in Southeast Asia: 1968-70 to 1988-90 / Charles Hirschman, Yih-Jin Young. Social and economic development and the fertility transitions in mainland China and Taiwan / Dudley L. Poston, Jr. The impact of targeted family planning programs in Indonesia / John W. Molyneaux, Paul J. Gertler
• pt. 2. Institutional arrangements and the elderly. Aging, wellbeing, and social security in rural northern China / Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle. Demographic transition and social security in Taiwan / Sheng-Cheng Hu, Kuo-Mei Chen, Lii-Tarn Chen
• pt. 3. Demographic change, saving, and capital accumulation. Growth, demographic structure, and national saving in Taiwan / Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson. Demographic transition and household saving in Taiwan / I-Ju Tsai, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Ching-Fan Chung. Life cycle saving and the demographic transition: the case of Taiwan / Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason, Timothy Miller
• pt. 4. Population and development. The quantity-quality transition in Asia / Mark R. Montgomery, Mary Arends-Kuenning, Cem Mete. Population dynamics and economic growth in Asia / David F. Bloom, David Canning, Pia N. Malaney. The extension of life in developed countries and its implications for social policy in the twenty-first century / Robert W. Fogel.

Contributors:

Chu, C. Y. Cyrus

Lee, Ronald Demos, 1941-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

Population and development review > Vol. 26 (Supplement)

Subjects:

Demographic transition — East Asia — Congresses

Demographic transition

East Asia

Genres:

Conference papers and proceedings

General Notes:

Based on papers from a workshop entitled Economic aspects of demographic transition: the experience of Asian-Pacific countries in Asia, held at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, June, 1998.
"Population and development review, a supplement to volume 26, 2000."
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

HB887 .P658 2000

ISBNs:

0878341013 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

00066875

OCLC Numbers:

45420010