New York, 21-22 October 2013
Overview
This expert group meeting addresses key questions about fertility patterns and trends, implications for age structure changes and other population trends and effective policy responses. The meeting results will inform preparations for the forty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development in 2014, the theme of which is the assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development.
Documents
- Objectives of the Meeting
- Organization of Work
- List of Participants
- List of expert papers
- Biographical summaries
- Report of the Meeting
Presentations
- Overview of fertility trends since ICPD and key issues to consider for the future
Vladimira Kantorova (Population Division/DESA, United Nations) - How exceptional is the pattern of fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa?
John Bongaarts (Population Council) - Harnessing a demographic dividend: challenges and opportunities in high- and intermediate-fertility countries
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Cornell University) - Pathways to low fertility: European experience
Tomáš Sobotka (Vienna Institute of Demography) -
Low fertility in Asia: pathways, consequences and policy implications
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi (University of Tehran and Australian National University) - Fertility decline and public policies to address population rights: perspective from Latin America
Suzana Cavenaghi (National School of Statistics, Brazilian Bureau of Census) - Transitions to adulthood in a high fertility context: the case of sub-Saharan Africa
Caroline Kabiru (African Population and Health Research Center) - Young people and the transition to adulthood in low fertility countries
Francesco Billari (Oxford University) - Women’s empowerment and fertility: policy lessons
Monica Das Gupta (University of Maryland) - What are the population-level impacts of enabling people to exercise their reproductive rights?
Zoe Matthews (University of Southampton) - Summary: key findings and implications of fertility trends for the global development agenda
Monica Das Gupta (University of Maryland)
Expert papers
- No. 2013/2 - Women’s Empowerment and Fertility: Policy Lessons
Monica Das Gupta (University of Maryland) - No. 2013/3 - Transitions to Adulthood in a High Fertility Context: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Caroline W. Kabiru, Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Donatien Béguy, and Estelle M. Sidze (African Population and Health Research Center) - No. 2013/4 - How Exceptional is the Pattern of Fertility Decline in Sub-Saharan Africa?
John Bongaarts (Population Council) - No. 2013/5 - Fertility Decline and Public Policies to Address Population Rights: Perspective from Latin America
Suzana Cavenaghi (National School of Statistical Science (ENCE), Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil) - No. 2013/6 - What are the population-level impacts of enabling people to exercise their reproductive rights?
Zoe Matthews, Sylvia Szabo (University of Southampton, UK) and Adriane Martin Hilber (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland) - No. 2013/7 - Harnessing a Demographic Dividend: Challenges and Opportunities in High and Intermediate Fertility Countries
Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue (Cornell University, United States of America) - No. 2013/8 - Pathways to Low Fertility: European Perspectives
Tomáš Sobotka (Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Austria) -
No. 2014/1 - Different Pathways to Low Fertility in Asia: Consequences and Policy Implications
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi (Australian National University, Australia; University of Tehran, Iran) and Bhakta Gubhaju (Australian National University, Australia)