Suchergebnisse

Opportunities in Bangladesh to pursue development policies that stimulate interest in and demand for family planning are investigated. The setting of demographic behaviour is examined and a framework designed to account for the persistently high levels of fertility recorded in the country is introduced. The framework draws attention to the importance of children as an indispensable although costly means of insurance and adjustment in rural communities, which are vulnerable to weather-related and market- and institutionally-based risks of income insufficiency. (DÜI-Sen)