Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore, 2nd edition /

Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore, 2nd edition / / 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 popul...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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