Product Description: This book examines the profound demographic transformation affecting China, India, and Indonesia, where 40% of the world's people live. It offers a systematic, comparative approach that will help readers to better understand the changing social and regional recomposition of the population in these regions...read more

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Product Description: One of the most significant occurrences of this century has been the drastic decline in many countries of tragically high death and birth rates. In this collection, leading demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians examine the causes of this transition and the reasons why many other countries have not followed suit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study draws on statistical, historical, and ethnographic data to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of the remarkable changes which have occurred in this region since the 1950s. Age at marriage for females has risen sharply, age differences between spouses have narrowed, and divorce rates have fallen drastically in relation to rates in Western countries...read more

Product Description: The development achieved by the resource-limited Asian countries in the last thirty years is unprecedented. This work examines what the authors believe to be the key to this growth--human resources. Using the most current methodology and data, the authors address many issues, including demographic foundations for human resource development, the role of women, whether the expansion of the educational system can occur too quickly, and the implications of evolution toward an aging society...read more

Product Description: Integrating the approaches of demography, economics, geography, and sociology, this is the first detailed analysis of population growth in Indonesia as it affects national development. The chapters cover a broad range of topics--historical population trends, regional differences in social and economic development, fertility and mortality trends, mobility and urbanization, the growth of the labor force, and population planning--and together provide a comprehensive and readable treatment of an important and complex subject...read more

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