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The Economics of Chinese Birth Planning

The Economics of Chinese Birth Planning

From Austin Head-Jones, for About.com

Sources:

White, Tyrene. The Origins of China's Birth Planning Policy. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994.

Smil, Vaclav, China's Environmental Crisis. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Armonk, New York, 1993.

Tien, H. Yuan and Zhang Tianlu, Ping Yu, Li Jingneng, Liang Zhongtang. "China's Demographic Dilemmas." Population Bulletin, Vol. 47, No.1. Population Reference Bureau, Inc. Washington, D.C. June 1992.

Winckler, Edwin A. "Chinese Reproductive Policy at the Turn of the Century: Dynamic Stability." Population and Development Review, Vol. 28, No.3. The Population Council, Inc., New York, NY, 2002.

People's Republic of China Law on Population and Birth Planning. People's Republic of China, 2002.

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