Population policies and programmes in Singapore [electronic resource] /
Saw Swee-Hock.
- Second edition.
- Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016.
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xviii, 332 pages) :) illustrations
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Background -- 2. A private programme -- 3. The government programme -- 4. Induced abortion -- 5. Voluntary sterilization -- 6. Incentives and disincentives -- 7. Knowledge, attitudes, and practice -- 8. Rapid fertility decline -- 9. Uplifting fertility of better-educated women -- 10. Relaxing antinatalist policies -- 11. Limited pronatalist policies -- 12. Reinforcing previous pronatalist incentives -- 13. Latest pronatalist incentives -- 14. Prolonged below-replacement fertility -- 15. Immigration policies and programmes -- 16. Demographic trends and consequences.
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The second edition of Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the government's initiatives to influence the course of fertility, and hence the rate of population growth in the island-state of Singapore since the 1960s. The varied population issues and consequences associated with the prolonged below-replacement fertility are discussed in detail. The strength of the book lies in the author's intimate familiarity with the subject acquired through some personal involvement in the formulation of population policies for the country.