China's Family Planning Policies: Recent Reforms and Future Prospects

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 493-509

  Basten, Stuart ^a   Jiang, Quanbao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CONFLICT; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY PLANNING; FORECASTING; HUMAN; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FAMILY PLANNING POLICY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; POLITICS; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 84913592943     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2014.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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