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Sex preference and fertility : what is the link?

Robey, Bryant (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1987)
Shifts in household demographics herald economic changes for Thailand

Greenspan, Allison (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1993)
A "snapshot" of populations in Asia

Westley, Sidney B. (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2002)

Over the past 50 years, there has been a fundamental shift in population dynamics in Asia. Fueled by economic growth and the diffusion of new ideas and health and family planning technologies, both mortality and fertility ...
Survey sheds new light on marriage and sexuality in the Philippines

Xenos, Peter (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1997)

According to the 1994 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study (YAFS-II), most of the sexual activity reported by young people in the Philippines takes place within the context of a committed relationship. Such relationships ...
Surveys show persistence of teenage marriage and childbearing in Indonesia and Nepal

Choe, Minja Kim; Thapa, Shyam; Achmad, Sulistinah Irawati (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2001)

Recent surveys show that nearly three-quarters of rural women in Nepal and more than half of rural women in Indonesia marry while still in their teens. In both countries, four out of 10 rural women have a child before they ...
Tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia

Brown, Tim (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2004)

The HIV epidemic varies widely across Asia. Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand have the highest prevalence levels in the region-at around 2 percent of the adult population-followed closely by India. By contrast, Bangladesh, ...
Thailand copes with HIV/AIDS

Westley, Sidney B. (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1999)

Over the past 15 years, Thailand has experienced the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. A strong society-wide response has substantially reduced the number of new HIV infections and has mobilized a wide range of resources ...
The United States and Japan pursue a common agenda

Westley, Sidney B. (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1996)

In 1993, The United States and Japan launched the Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective. The goal is to apply the combined resources of the world's two largest economies to programs in five areas of global ...
What's happening to marriage in East Asia?

Westley, Sidney B. (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1998)

A trend toward late marriage has brought birth rates in Japan and South Korea to unprecedented low levels. In recent surveys, young people in these countries have expressed more negative attitudes about marriage than young ...
Who uses reproductive health services in the Philippines (and who doesn't)?

Westley, Sidney B.; Kantner, Andrew (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1996)

With the release of information from the 1993 National Demographic Survey (NDS) and the 1993 Safe Motherhood Survey (SMS), researchers in the Philippines can now develop extensive profiles of the frequency, duration, and ...
Why Thai fertility has fallen : are there lessons for other countries?

Robey, Bryant (Honolulu:East-West Center, 1988)
Women are key players in the economies of east and southeast Asia

Westley, Sidney B.; Mason, Andrew (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1997)

As gender differences in economic activity have diminished, Asian women have played an increasingly important role in economic growth. An international study of six East and Southeast Asian economies sheds light on women's ...