Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore, 2nd edition / / Saw Swee-Hock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Swee-Hock, Saw,
• MitwirkendeR: Calhoun, Craig,; Loong, Lee Hsien,; Swee-Hock, Saw,; Tong, Goh Chok,; Yew, Lee Kuan,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables --; List of Figures --; 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 --; 17. 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 Minister Lee Hsien Loong's New Year Message on 1 January 2012 --; Appendix F. Babies --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814762205; 9783110649826; 9783110701005; 9783110662993; 9783110606676; 9783110701012
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814762205
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Saw Swee-Hock.

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 population issues and consequences associated with the prolonged below-replacement fertility are discussed in detail. The strength of the book lies in the author's intimate familiarity with the subject acquired through some personal involvement in the formulation of population policies for the country.