Fertility Decline, Women's Status and NGOs in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, very few researchers have studied the relationships between participation of female labour force and fertility decline and the contribution of women's employment on their status and consequently on fertility decline in the country. In this study, an attempt has been made to examine the fertility-employment relationships and, by focusing on the activities of GOs and NGOs, to explore the significant factors of women's status and the impact of women's status on reducing fertility. It is hoped that this book will be useful to the researchers and academicians to know more about of women's status and its contribution on reducing fertility, and will help the policy planners to formulate future strategies for women's status and to achieve a further fertility decline in the country.

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Dr. Md. Abdul Goni is an Associate Professor at the Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He received his B.Sc Honours and M.Sc degree in Statistics from this university. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan in 2008.