Three Issues in Soviet Population Policy

Bibliographic Data

ID4979489
AuthorsDavid M Heer (corresponding author)
Year1977
Volume3
Issue3
Pages229
Publication date1977-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1971890
OpenAlexW2295004340
LanguageEN
Citations received7

2 significant trends in Soviet population change have been the focus of recent Soviet demographic literature: a decline in the fertility rate which has dropped from 17.4/1000 in 1965 to 8.8/1000 in 1975 and an increasing proportion of total births and of total increase from the Central Asian and Transcaucasian areas of the Soviet Union. Soviet demographic debate has revolved around 3 aspects of these trends: To what extent should the government attempt to subsidize population increases at the expense of such social goals as maintaining the current proportion of women in the work force and attaining equal status for women with men? To what extent should an attempt be made to narrow the gap between the fertility rates for European Soviet Union and the Central Asian Transcaucasian areas and should efforts be directed only at raising the rates of the former or of lowering that of the latter as well? What measures should be taken to prevent the rapid growth of the Islamic Central Asian area from having an adverse effect on that areas standards of living? The discussions of these questions are based on publications of leading Soviet demographers and on personal interviews with these and other specialists

Development economics · Economics · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Health and Conflict Studies · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Russia and Soviet political economy

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