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Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 1, Issue 1, 1986
Volume 1, Issue 1, 1986
Issued quarterly, the Journal is an invaluable resource containing opinions and analysis by experts on important issues related to population. It provides a medium for the international exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, technical information and data on all aspects of population.
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Population and urbanization
Author: Rafael M. SalasUrban dwellers are rapidly becoming a majority of the population. Most of them live in developing countries, and an ever-higher proportion in the biggest cities. Most of the world’s largest cities are now in developing countries, and they are growing to sizes never before experienced. The urban population is growing several times as fast as in the rural areas, either through natural growth (the difference in numbers between births and deaths) or through migration from rural areas. But rural population in developing countries will continue to grow.
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The cultural context of Thailand’s fertility decline
Authors: John Knodel, Aphichat Chamratrithirong and Nibhon DebavalyaThailand is among a growing number of developing countries that are experiencing a sustained decline in fertility from former high and relatively stable levels. In the case of Thailand, the reduction in birth rates has been both rapid and pervasive. During the last two decades, the total fertility rate (TFR) fell from a level of between 6 and 7 births per woman to a level of close to 3 per woman. According to a recent United Nations assessment, Thailand’s fertility decline during the last two decades ranks as the third largest, behind only China and the Republic of Korea, among the 15 most populous developing countries of the world (United Nations, 1985).
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Integrating population and development planning
Authors: Alejandro N. Herrin, Henry Pardoko, Tan Boon Ann and Chira HongladaromCalls for the integration of population and development planning have been made at various forums during the last decade. At the international level, a call was incorporated within the 1974 World Population Plan of Action which states: “Population measures and programmes should be integrated into comprehensive social and economic plans and programmes…” It. essentially remained in force in the 1984 Mexico City Declaration on Population and Development.
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International migration
Author: United NationsDuring the past few years, the pace of construction in the Middle East has been slowing and there have been numerous reports indicating that the annual number of migrants from the Asian and Pacific region is decreasing. With the recent decline in the oil revenues of Middle Eastern countries, the future of labour migration has become an even more important consideration for policy-makers and planners in the countries of the migrants’ origin.
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Population and human resources
Author: United NationsOne of the notes prepared by the secretariat for consideration at the forty-second session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) focuses on a variety of issues related to population and human resources. Among these are human resources for population and family planning programmes, and the role of ESCAP in developing human resources for such purposes. The aim of the paper is to discuss the types of investments in human resources that are likely to contribute to a continued decline in fertility in the Asian and Pacific region.
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