Download or read book Demographic Responses To Development written by Robert A Hackenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the causes of declining fertility in a major Southeast Asian nation, the Philippines. Although others maintain that increased use of family planning is the source of reduced reproductive rates throughout the region, the authors show that the reduction in birth rate in the 1970s was much greater than the drop in fertility among m