Essays about: "Malthusian paradigm"

Found 2 essays containing the words Malthusian paradigm.

1. 1. Between Continuity and Change: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development’s Program of Action

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Khelia Mbisamakoro; [2014]
   Keywords : discourse; population control; malthusian discourse; family planning; CDA; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The history of the population control movement is one replete with controversies and where narratives about coercive population control policies and programs abound. Questionable practices such as the wide sterilization campaigns as took place in India during its state of emergency period in the 1970s or the use of contraceptives in the developing world already banned from Western markets contributed in casting a shadow over the population control movement for years. READ MORE

3. 2. New Evidence of Deliberate Fertility Control in Colonial Taiwan: Dajia 1906-1942

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Shih-Hsiu Chen; [2010]
   Keywords : deliberate fertility control; colonial Taiwan; Malthusian paradigm; Cox PH model.; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper deals with the disputable issue of the existence of Malthus’ Preventive Check in Chinese population. With the help of a newly established historical database (Demographic Database of Colonial Taiwan, DDCT), which currently including the individual level data regarding to the socio-demographic backgrounds of the registered population in fifteen townships in North and Western Taiwan, we thus are allowed to learn about the birth histories of colonial Taiwan. READ MORE