The Bangladesh Fertility Decline: An Interpretation

Caldwell, John C.; Barkat-e-Khuda,; Caldwell, Bruce; Pieris, Indrani; Caldwell, Pat

doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.1999.00067.x

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“…Table 2.1 summarises some of the key changes over the last three decades. NIPORT et al (2009) The rapid achievement of lower fertility rates in Bangladesh (see Table 2.2) owes to a combination of access to and latent demand for fertility control services (Simmons 1996;Caldwell et al 1999;Kabeer 2001a). With respect to maternal mortality, deaths per 100,000 live births more than halved in the 15 year period up to 2001 (Table 2.1), although they remain high (Annex Table A.1).…”

Section: Human Development (Health and Education)mentioning

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National Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: Continuities and Change

Nazneen

Hossain²,

Sultan

2011

IDS Working Papers

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SummaryAs Bangladesh turns 40, improvements in women's wellbeing and increased agency are claimed to be some of the most significant gains in the post-independence era. Various economic and social development indicators show that in the last 20 years, Bangladesh, a poor, Muslim-majority country in the classic patriarchal belt, has made substantial progress in increasing women's access to education and healthcare (including increasing lifeexpectancy), and in improving women's participation in the labour force. The actors implementing such programmes and policies and claiming to promote women's empowerment are numerous, and they occupy a significant position within national political traditions and development discourses. In the 1970s and 1980s development ideas around women's empowerment in Bangladesh were influenced by an overtly instrumentalist logic within the international donor sphere. This led to the women's empowerment agenda being perceived as a donor driven project, which overlooks how domestic actors such as political parties, women's organisations and national NGOs have influenced thinking and action around it. This paper explores how these perceptions and narratives around women's empowerment have evolved in Bangladesh from 2000 to date. It studies the concepts of women's empowerment in public discourse and reviews the meanings and uses of the term by selected women's organisations, donor agencies, political parties and development NGOs. By reviewing the publicly available documents of these organisations, the paper analyses the multiple discourses on women's empowerment, showing the different concepts associated with it and how notions such as power, domains and processes of empowerment are understood by these actors. It also highlights how these different discourses have influenced each other and where they have diverged, with an emphasis on what these divergences mean in terms of advancing women's interests in Bangladesh.

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Section: Human Development (Health and Education)mentioning

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National Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: Continuities and Change

Nazneen

Hossain²,

Sultan

2011

IDS Working Papers

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“…For instance, Caldwell et al express doubt that the Bangladesh family planning program could have reduced the TFR by approximately three births per woman over two decades in the absence of significant social change. 10 The same controversy exists regarding the fertility decline in the developing world in general. Robey et al argue that family planning has the most direct influence on fertility.…”

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Inconsistencies in the Relationship Between Contraceptive Use and Fertility in Bangladesh

Saha¹,

Bairagi²

2007

IFPP

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“…Therefore, large mean land holding women had less preferred to decide to use family planning methods. Caldwell et al [19] reported that in Thailand smaller land sizes have facilitated the adoption of contraceptive methods implying that there is some relationship between land size and contraceptive use. Maglad [20] concluded in his study on effect land size on fertility in rural Sudan that the land size is negatively related with the use of birth control methods.…”

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Access and Utilization of Family Planning Methods Among Rural Women: The Case of Mirab Badawacho Woreda, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Erkalo¹

2017

HSS

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This study was conducted at Mirab Badawacho Woreda. Its aim was to assess the status of access family planning information and utilization of family planning methods and to identify factors that determine the decision to utilize family planning methods among rural women. The total sample size for this study was 115 (53 family planning user and 62 non-user respondents). Quantitative data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard division), inferential statistics (chi-square and t-tests) and binary logit model. From the total 11 explanatory variables included in the binary logit model, health extension contact had significant and positive effect on the decision to utilize family planning methods at 1% significant level. While education level of respondents, annual gross income had significant and positive effect on the decision to utilize family planning methods at 5% significant level whereas house type had significant and negative effect on the decision to utilize family planning methods at 5% significant level. However, attitude on family planning methods and access to NGOs support had significant and positive effect on the decision to utilize family planning methods at 10% significant level. Therefore, policy makers and family planning service providers should give due attention to determinants that significantly influencing the utilization decision of family planning methods through emphasizing women education and income improvement activities. Access to NGOs support had significant and positive effect on the decision to utilize family planning methods. Therefore, it should be better to create access to NGOs support for non-user women with special attention on intervention of family planning service. Attitude on family planning methods had significant and positive effect on the decision to utilize family planning methods. Therefore, it suggests provision of awareness creation training about the utilization of family planning methods for rural women. The significant and positive effect of Health extension contact on the decision to utilize family planning methods suggests improvement of the issues.

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The Bangladesh Fertility Decline: An Interpretation

Cited by 107 publications

References 16 publications

National Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: Continuities and Change

National Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: Continuities and Change

Inconsistencies in the Relationship Between Contraceptive Use and Fertility in Bangladesh

Access and Utilization of Family Planning Methods Among Rural Women: The Case of Mirab Badawacho Woreda, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

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