Population and Poverty

Contents: Preface. 1. Population and poverty challenges for Asia. 2. The Asia-Pacific experience. 3. Population and poverty : some perspectives on Asia. 4. Poverty and mortality in the context of economic growth. 5. Reproductive health including family planning. 6. Asian and Pacific population conference. 7. Evolution of population concerns. 8. Transforming rural-urban interactions. 9. Education and health in South Asia. 10. Migration and poverty. 11. International migration. 12. Changing population. 13. Population of ethnic movement. Index.

"To achieve the millennium development goals poor peoples must be empowered to take steps to improve their lives and governments must assist them by ensuring that they can obtain the services they need, these services include universal access to reproductive health and primary education as world leaders agreed at the International Conference on population and development. This implices the need for good understanding of demographic trends which in turn implies the need for good data and good research. To bring effective reproductive health facilities to poorer countries requires money, planning and changed attitudes on the part of those who determine government budgets and many health providers." (jacket)