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BIRTH CONTROL IN BELARUS AND CHINA: CURRENT POLICY
Belarus and China are experiencing a decline of the total fertility rate (TFR). On the one hand, this was a natural response to the increasing role of women in society, on the labor market and increasing women’s participation in education.
Anastacia BOBROVA+2 more
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Demographic factors have sometimes occupied center-stage in the discussion of the sources of economic growth. In the 18th century, Thomas Malthus made the pessimistic forecast that GDP growth per capita would fall due to a continued rapid increase in ...
Saleh Nagiyev
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The Gendered Discourses of Illiberal Demographic Policy in Poland and in Russia
Despite being dissimilar cases, both Poland and Russia exhibit strong anti-liberal and democratic backsliding tendencies. Concomitantly, politicians are spreading a demographic moral panic, employing the argument that both nations are in danger of demise.
Barbara Gaweda
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This article discusses statements on demographic policy issued by the Russian state leadership in the years 2000-2010. During the years covered in this study, there has been an increase in publicly expressed concern over the state of the population, i.e.
Eveliina Heino
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On the “Anthropogenic” Foundations and Incentives for Economic Development
Purpose of research. The purpose of this article is to implement applied social indicators as the means of research, collection and processing of statistical and practical information.
O. V. Alekseeva+2 more
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Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
Objective To study the U.S. public’s health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20–23, 2020).
S. Gadarian+2 more
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Like many developed countries in the world, China currently faces many serious demographic challenges that pose a potential risk to the country’s socio-economic development and stability.
A. Čajková, P. Čajka
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Background The reduction of childhood malnutrition has been identified as a priority for health and development in sub Saharan African countries. The association between women’s empowerment and children’s nutritional status is of policy interest due to ...
S. Yaya+3 more
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The paper presents findings of a research, the goal of which was to evaluate the effectiveness of state measures aimed to promote the birth rate in Russia and its northern regions, their impact on the increase of birth rate intensity in 2007–2015.
Shishkina Mariya A., Popova Larisa A.
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Rethinking the contemporary history of fertility: family, state, and the world system
The paper highlights the drivers of contemporary fertility history in developed countries “forgotten” by theory: fundamental changes in the world system after the Second World War and in the late 1980s and early 1990s; competing ideas of the “right ...
Mikhail Klupt
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