Education and work in rural China: opportunities for men and women.
The economic reforms in the Chinese countryside since 1978...provide a major natural experiment in the social and economic consequences of the transition from planned to market systems. This paper provides a beginning assessment of some of those changes with new 1993 data on rural China. Our emphasis is on changing [educational] opportunities for men and women and the ways in which this education produces human capital that leads to significant new work and income rewards. (EXCERPT)
This article examines which public programmes and which socio-economic development indicators have had an impact on contraceptive practices and fertility in a selected group of villages in Comilla district of Bangladesh. It finds that equitable even-handed development may be a good contraceptive but is not a realistic alternative to family planning effort....This research undertaken in 1985 replicates a similar knowledge attitudes and practice (KAP) type study undertaken in these same villages some 20 years earlier in 1967/68....Thus the two studies provide a unique look at demographic behavioural characteristics when these agricultural development programmes were in an early stage and then 20 years later. (EXCERPT)