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Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 17, Issue 3, 2002
Volume 17, Issue 3, 2002
Issued quarterly, this journal is an invaluable resource containing opinions and analysis by experts on critical 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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Viet Nam’s older population: The view from the census
Authors: John Knodel and Truong Si AnhViet Nam, as many other countries in East and South-East Asia, has been successful in its policy to lower fertility in the interest of national development. According to United Nations estimates, the total fertility rate fell from over six, just three decades ago, to close to the replacement level by the turn of the twenty-first century. Life expectancy at birth increased during the same time by almost 20 years to close to 70 (United Nations, 2001a). Past high fertility, combined with mortality decline, is resulting in substantial growth in the numbers of the older persons and, in conjunction with the subsequent fertility decline, to an increasing share of the overall population who are at older ages. Recent United Nations projections indicate that the population aged 60 and over will increase by 80 per cent in size in the first two decades of this new century and grow fivefold by mid-century (United Nations, 2001b). By 2050, persons aged 60 and over will constitute almost a quarter of the total Vietnamese population.
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Estate women’s fertility in Sri Lanka: Some aberrant perspectives in the causal links
Author: P. PuvanarajanThe common findings of research are that women in the labour force bear fewer children than those out of it. However, the behavioural pattern of Indian Tamils is somewhat aberrant in nature as for some time in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, their fertility performance was lower than for those women in the other major ethnic groups in the country, namely the Sinhalese and the Sri Lankan Tamils. On closer examination of the underlying factors, it becomes evident that it is again not the labour force participation per se that was the determining factor, and that fresh and different evidence reveals factors accounting for this impressive but anomalous inverse link.
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Sexual behaviour related to HIV/AIDs: Commercial sex and condom use in Hanoi, Viet Nam
Authors: Nguyen Minh Thang, Vu Thu Huong and Maria-Eve BlancGlobally, 40 million adults and children were living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)/AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) at the end of 2001. Of infected adults, 48 per cent were women. In 2001, the global adult HIV prevalence rate was 1.2 per cent. During that year, 5 million people were newly infected with HIV and 3 million died due to HIV/AIDS. In many parts of the developing world, the majority of new infections occurred among young adults, with young women being especially vulnerable. About one third of those currently living with HIV/AIDS are aged 15 to 24 years. Most of them do not know they carry the virus. Many millions more know nothing about the virus or too little to protect themselves (UNAIDS, 2001).
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Female labour migration to Bangkok: Transforming rural-urban interactions and social networks through globalization
Author: Anne ClawenRecent globalization processes have changed significantly the conditions and features of female rural-to-urban labour migration in Thailand, particularly in terms of social networks and rural-urban interactions. The Thai case is specifically interesting because the Thai societal model is often said to support female migration better than other cultures. Thai female migrants encounter globalization, especially when they search for employment in the industries of Bangkok and its vicinity, the site of condensing economic globalization. The “feminization of urban employment” and the “feminization of labour migration” actually represent two sides of the same coin.
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Adolescent reproductive health: What are the lessons learned from the intervention projects
Authors: Yasmin Siddiqua and M. KabirAdolescents aged between 10 to 19 years, are a large and growing segment of the population. At 1.05 billion, this is the biggest-ever generation of young people and their number is increasing rapidly in many countries (UNFPA, 1998a). The population of adolescents will continue to grow because of the growth momentum of age structure and the high fertility rate in the past. Globally, the largest share of adolescents is and will continue to be in Asia, which has 60 per cent of the world population (UNFPA, 1998b).
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