Fertility Policy in China: Future Options
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Greenhalgh, Susan
Bongaarts, John
Bibliographic Citation
Science. 1987 Mar 6; 235(4793): 1167-1172.
Abstract
A wide range of social, economic, and demographic criteria are used to evaluate China's present one-child policy and five alternative fertility policies that might guide China's population control efforts until the end of the century when the one-child policy is scheduled to be abandoned. These criteria include the policies' macrodemographic impact on total population size and population aging; their microdemographic effects on the family's ability to support the elderly, its economic capabilities, and the position of women; and their cultural acceptability to the majority Han Chinese population. The results suggest that the least desirable strategy is to retain the present policy; all the two-child alternatives perform better than the current one-child policy in achieving the policy goals considered.
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Fertility Policy in China: Future Options
Greenhalgh, Susan; Bongaarts, John (1987-03-06)