This paper reviews the developments in the population program from 1986-2002. It summarizes the main components of the program as well as highlights the developments in its management and financing. The activities of donors, other government agencies and nongovernment organizations in these...

Early child-bearing and high fertility still persist especially among the poor, despite the more than two decades of family planning program implementation in the Philippines. Using an evaluation framework that links inputs, outputs, utilization of outputs and outcomes, the paper analyzes the...

Population processes and outcomes (in this case, urbanization) influences and changes the development of an area and vice versa. In the case of Tagum City, its growing economy is presumed to be attracting considerable movement of people which proves to present both opportunities and challenges...

This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from recent research by the author using nationally representative household survey data that demonstrate clearly how large family size can contribute to poverty and vulnerability...

The MOSAIC project aimed to collect information on micro-census data preserved in different European countries and to build up an online database so as to open up new research possibilities on household structure and marriage patterns. The Hungarian MOSAIC sample is based on the data of the 1869...

Der Band enthält die schriftlichen Fassungen der Jahrestagung 1994 des Ausschusses Entwicklungsländer des Vereins für Socialpolitik. Er befaßt sich mit der ungebrochenen Bevölkerungsdynamik in den Entwicklungsländern und mit Ansatzpunkten bevölkerungspolitischer Maßnahmen, insbesondere...

Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The birth quota since 1980 has particularly restricted the...

2012 hat die Bundesregierung eine Demografiestrategie formuliert und einen entsprechenden Gipfel organisiert. Der Strategie fehlt allerdings eine Leitlinie, die angesichts der nach 2020 zu erwartenden demografischen Probleme sehr dringend benötigt würde. Vor allem müssen institutionelle...