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Watering the neighbour's garden : the growing demographic female deficit in Asia
- Title
- Watering the neighbour's garden : the growing demographic female deficit in Asia / edited by Isabelle Attané and Christophe Z. Guilmoto.
- Publication
- Paris : Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography, 2007.
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- Description
- xii, 425, [2] p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Originates in the international conference "Female deficit in Asia" held in Singapore on 5-7 December 2005 ... jointly sponsored by CEPED, CICRED and INED and was organized locally by the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis"--P. [viii].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available online via the Internet at the CICRED web site.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Recent trends in sex ratio in Asia -- Introduction / Isabelle Attané, Christophe Z. Guilmoto -- Imbalanced sex ratio at birth and female child survival in China: issues and prospects / Li Shuzhuo ... [et al.] -- Sex ratio at birth and excess female child mortality in India: trends, differentials and regional patterns / Perianayagam Arokiasamy -- Sharp increase in sex ratio at birth in the Caucasus. Why? How? / France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Irina Badurashvili -- Son preference, female deficit and Singapore's fertility transition / Elspeth Graham -- Pt. II. Differentials in discriminatory behaviour -- Geography of deteriorating child sex ratio in China and India / Christophe Z. Guilmoto, Isabelle Attané -- Factors influencing the use of prenatal diagnostic techniques and sex ratio at birth in India / P.N. Mari Bhat, A.J. Francis Zavier -- Decreases in male and female mortality and missing women in Bangladesh / Nurul Alam, Jeroen van Ginneken, Alinda Bosch -- Does religion matter? A study of regional variations in sex ratio at birth in Korea / Kim Doo-Sub, Song Yoo-Jean -- Pt. III. Local perspectives on gender bias -- Missing girls, land and population controls in rural China / Laurel Bossen -- Social networks and son preference among rural-urban migrants in China: a study in Shenzhen / Wu Haixia ... [et al.] -- Discrimination from conception to childhood: a study of girl children in rural Haryana, India / Sutapa Agrawal, Sayeed Unisa -- Is son preference emerging among the Nayars of Kerala in South India? / S. Sudha ... [et al.] -- Vulnerable daughters in a modernizing society: from 'son preference' to 'daughter discrimination' in rural South India / T.V. Sekher, Neelambar Hatti -- Pt. IV. Policy response and impact -- Interventions to balance sex ratio at birth in rural China / Zheng Zhenzhen -- Son preference and the marriage squeeze in China: an integrated analysis of the first marriage and the remarriage market / Jiang Quanbao ... [et al.] -- Marriage migration between Vietnam and Taiwan: a view from Vietnam / Graeme Hugo, Nguyen Thi Hong Xoan -- Transnational migration, marriage and trafficking at the China-Vietnam border / Le Bach Duong, Danièle Bélanger, Khuat Thu Hong -- List of other papers presented at the Singapore conference in December 2005.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-8116
- ISBN
- 2910053296
- 9782910053291
- 9782910053296 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 181231952
- Title
- Watering the neighbour's garden : the growing demographic female deficit in Asia / edited by Isabelle Attané and Christophe Z. Guilmoto.
- Imprint
- Paris : Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Also available online via the Internet at the CICRED web site.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Attané, Isabelle.Guilmoto, Christophe.CICRED.Centre français sur la population et le développement.Institut national d'études démographiques (France)Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-8116