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020			_a978303091610
028			_a: CBS Publishers & Distributors _b: 204, Industrial Area, Parparganj, New Delhi _c; COR/IN/26/6395 _d: 25/09/2025
082			_a330.95 SKI
100			_aSkirbekk, Vegard.
100			_a; Bowen, Catherine E.
245			_aDecline and Prosper _c/ Vegard Skirbekk. _b: Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children.
260			_aNew Delhi _b : Manohar _c , 1995.
300			_axxxiii, 396p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2690.95
520			_aGlobally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future? In Decline and Prosper!, demographic expert Vegard Skirbekk offers readers an accessible, comprehensive and evidence-based overview of human reproduction. Readers learn about the evolution of childbearing across different populations and how fertility is related to (changes in) our reproductive capacity, contraception, education, religion, partnering, policies, economics, assisted reproduction, and catastrophes. Readers will explore the future of family size and its impact on human welfare, women’s empowerment and the environment. Skirbekk argues that low fertility is on the whole a good thing, while recognizing the challenges of population aging and “coincidental” childlessness. A balanced, integrative examination of one of the most important issues of our time, Decline and Prosper! drives home the fact that we must ultimately adapt to a world with fewer children. The book will be invaluable to anyone who is interested in the far-reaching effects of global fertility, including researchers and students of demography, social statistics, medical sociologists, family and childhood studies, human geographers, sociology of culture, social and public policy.
650			_aEconomic conditions
650			_aEconomic History
650			_aEconomic development
700			_aVegard Skirbekk
942			_cBOOK
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