China's population figures: can the contradictions be resolved?
In recent years, the government of the People's Republic of China has been reporting the country's population as "nearly 800 million." A variety of evidence suggests that this approximation is the best currently available in China, and that it may be some time before further, more accurate, demographic data are produced. The paper presents and discusses alternate population estimates and projections by UN, US, and USSR specialists.
The size, composition, and growth of the population of mainland China
Dr. Levy's translation of the biography of An Lu-shan in the Old T'ang History is soberly done. It is provided with a judicious, though not especially penetrating, introduction and a useful map. One's doubts are primarily concerned with the limits of the Chinese Hehchuan form and the usefulness (except as a linguistic exercise) of translating examples of it as an end in itself rather than as a part of some larger study. Ueh-chuan are not, and were never intended to be, biographies in the sense of rounded accounts of men's lives. As narratives of events they are unsatisfactory because they have to be fitted together with what appears in other parts of the histories. They are a mine of raw material to be quarried, sifted, compared with what is found elsewhere. One's aim must be to get behind them, not to present them "objectively."
Marketing and family planning program management.
Marketing techniques can make significant contributions to developing and managing family planning programs especially because many of the problems inhibiting program success have marketing components. Some shortcomings of traditional programs include the unpleasant clinic atmosphere limited motivational efforts inconvenient clinic hours lack of method choice and low priority of family planning. The commercial distribution of contraception has great potential for even in remote areas of developing countries there already exists a distribution network. Marketing principals can be used in the advertising and promotion of family planning. Research and evaluation of family planning programs can be better facilitated through the use of standard market research methods. Examples of current projects utilizing marketing procedures include the Indian Niordh project and programs in Panama Ghana Kenya and Jamaica. Since the commerical sector distributes more contraceptives than any other sector at present family planning administrators should take advantage of the even greater opportunities it offers using marketing principals and techniques.