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EXPERT GROUP MEETING on
COMPLETING THE FERTILITY TRANSITION
New York, 11-14 March 2002

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Intermediate Fertility Countries

Press Release
Country List
Region and Country List

DOCUMENTS

Provisional Agenda (UN/POP/CFT/2002/INF.1)
Provisional Organization of Work (UN/POP/CFT/2002/INF.2)
Provisional List of Participants (UN/POP/CFT/2002/INF.3)
Provisional List of Documents (UN/POP/CFT/2002/INF.4)

Background Papers
The contemporary population challenge (John Caldwell) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/1)
Impact of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (Jason Finkle) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/2)
Impact of international donor funding (Steven Sinding) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/3)
Examining changes in the status of women and gender as predictors of fertility change issues in intermediate-fertility countries
(Maria E. Cosio-Zavala) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/4)
The impact of HIV 1 on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: causes and consequences (Simon Gregson, Basia Zaba and Susan-Catherine Hunter) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/5)
Fertility levels and trends in countries with intermediate levels of fertility (Population Division) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/6)
Structures familiales et evolutions de la fecondite dans les pays a fecondite intermediaire d'Afrique de l'ouest (Therese Locoh) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/7)
Education and future fertility trends, with special reference to mid-transitional countries (John Cleland) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/8)
Female labour force participation (Lin Lean Lim) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/9)
The proximate determinants during the fertility transition (Jean-Pierre Guengant) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/10)
Government views and policies: an overview (Population Division) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/11)
Effort measures for family planning action programs: past trends and future prospects (John Ross) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/12)
The future of fertility in intermediate-fertility countries (Population Division) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/13)
The end of the fertility transition in the developing world (John Bongaarts) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/BP/14)

Country Papers
Completing the fertility transition: the case of Argentina (Edith Alejandra Pantelides) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/1)
Bangladesh (Mizanur Rahman) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/2)
What will happen to Brazilian fertility? (Ana Maria Goldani) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/3)
Egypt (Philippe Fargues) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/4)
India (Mari Bhat) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/5)
On the Future of Human Fertility in India (Tim Dyson) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/6)
Caught in transit: Questions about the future of Indonesian fertility (Terry Hull) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/7)
Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran
(Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/8)
Fertility in Israel: Is the transition to replacement level in sight? (Dov Friedlander) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/9)
Completing the fertility transition: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria (Riad Tabbarah) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/10)
Kenya's fertility transition: how low will it go? (John Blacker) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/11)
Sur les pas de l'Europe du sud: la fecondite au Maghreb (Youssef Courbage) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/12)
Fertility in Mexico:recent trends and forecasts (Rodolfo Tuiran, Virgilio Partida, Elena Zuniga and Octavio Mojarro) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/13)
Nigeria (Akinrinola Bankole) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/14)
Philippines (Marilou Costello and John Casterline) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/15)
Fertility transition in South Africa (Leon Swartz) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/16)
On the prospects for endless fertility decline in South Asia (Alaka Malwade Basu) (UN/POP/CFT/2002/CP/17)