This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and … fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a stronger indicator of fertility than child mortality alone;and (3) what … indicatorsof fertility change and produce better results than population mortality or socioeconomicfactors alone. Use of health …

Beside its membership (1995) in the World Trade Organization (WTO), Egypt joined Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) such … Egyptian RTAs. Although the RoO can indeed be regarded as a Non-Tariff Barrier (NTB) for Egypt as a common country in Euro …-Med, COMESA and GAFTA, most of the inputs that are used in the Egyptian products originate in Egypt, in the EU or in countries …

censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The … that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and …

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …

Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women … for additional births Declines in fertility have proceeded unevenly, first across the high income countries, and more … recently across the low income countries. The cross sectional differentials in fertility are also frequently analyzed in …