goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty reduction. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important … determinants of reproductive health. While fertility and contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) are evenly distributed, wide gaps in … health; focusing interventions on high-fertility and high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) areas; addressing human resources …

impressive policy as well as programmatic commitment to lowering the fertility level. However, its future socioeconomic prospects … may be hampered by its population growth rate, depending on how quickly the fertility rates decline and at which point … a laissez faire projection scenario and 201.3 million under an accelerated fertility transition (AFT) scenario. This …

Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found … that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …

' dynamics during their decision processes on fertility intentions and practices, along with community perceptions of male … about their fertility intentions and practices due to the financial challenges of raising large families. This concern has …