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Public discourse on gender in South Asia has tended to focus on the family and culture as the primary culprits in creating gender inequality. Frequently public policies tend to be less effective in ad...
Female Autonomy and Fertility：An Overview of the Situation in South Asia
socio-cultural milieu South Asian subcontinent Female Autonomy
2009/4/24
This article explores several dimensions of the socio-cultural milieu in countries of the South Asian subcontinent that account for the persistence of moderate to high fertility. It finds that, becaus...
Breast-feeding, Infant Health and Child Survival in the Asia-Pacific Context
Breast-feeding Infant Health Child Survival Asia-Pacific
2009/4/22
This article considers the role of breast-feeding in infant health and child survival, with a special reference to the available information from countries in the Asian and Pacific region. A simplifie...
Family Change and Support of the Elderly in Asia：What Do We Know?
Family Change Elderly Asia
2009/4/15
After outlining variations in traditional family systems in Asia, this article discusses likely impacts of urbanization, industrialization and migration on family structure and care of the elderly. Ev...
Social and Economic Support Systems for the Elderly in Asia：An Introduction
Economic Support Systems Asia Elderly
2009/4/15
This introduction provides an overview of the issues related to the rapid increase in the number of elderly in some Asian countries. It describes how the articles contained in this special issue of th...
This article focuses on the situation regarding sex preference for sons in four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, which account for a combined population of about 1.2 b...
Living Arrangements and Support among the Elderly in South-East Asia：An Introduction
Living Arrangements South-East Asia Support
2009/4/8
This introduction points to the increased concern in the ESCAP region over the issue of population ageing and the growing body of related research that has emerged since the prior theme issue on agein...
Fertility Decline, Family Size and Female Discrimination：A Study of Reproductive Management in East and South Asia
Fertility Decline Family Size Female Discrimination
2009/4/1
A study of demographic narratives across East and South Asia suggests that, region-wide, there is increasing tension or conflict between preferred family size and preferred family-sex composition whic...
Fertility Transition in Asia：Past Experiences and Future Directions
Fertility Transition Future Directions Past Experiences
2009/3/31
During the second half of the twentieth century, many countries and areas in Asia witnessed remarkable declines in fertility. For the region as a whole, the total fertility rate is currently estimated...
Transnational Politics and Organizing of Migrant Labour in South-East Asia – NGO and Trade Union Perspectives
Migrant Labour Trade Union Perspectives South-East Asia
2009/3/27
South-East Asia is part of a dynamic region in terms of labour migration, comprised of source and destination countries highly significant within the broader patterns of human movement at the global l...
Social Issues in the Management of Labour Migration in Asia and the Pacific
Labour Migration Asia the Pacific
2009/3/27
Cross-border movements of workers from and within the Asian region have grown rapidly during the past three decades, largely driven by labour shortages in the more dynamic economies of the region, and...
Migration Trends and Patterns in South Asia and Management Approaches and Initiatives
Migration Trends South Asia
2009/3/27
Historic ties, accentuated by the modern day dynamics of migration has given rise to a complex and multidimensional population movement in the South Asian region. Today, migration features prominently...
Recent Trends in International Migration in Asia and the Pacific
Recent Trends International Migration Asia Pacific
2009/3/27
This paper provides updates in trends in international migration in and from the Asia-Pacific region from 2001. With migration systems firmly in place, various forms of international migration involvi...
Family Transition in South Asia：Provision of Social Services and Social Protection
Family Transition South Asia Social Services Social Protection
2009/3/27
An accelerated creation of nuclear families occurred with the process of modernization when large-scale migration from rural to urban areas occurred largely among young adults who left their villages ...
Population Ageing in East and South-East Asia, 1950-2050：Implications for Elderly Care
Population Ageing South-East Asia Elderly Care
2009/3/27
As consequence of sustained declines in fertility and improvements in life expectancy during the last three decades of the twentieth century, East and South-East Asia is now faced with a high rate of ...