The Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do about Falling Birth Rates - Softcover

Kramer, Steven Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421411709 ISBN 13: 9781421411705

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In many developed countries, population decline poses economic and social strains and may even threaten national security. Through historical-political case studies of Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, and Singapore, The Other Population Crisis explores the motivations, politics, programming, and consequences of national efforts to promote births.

Steven Philip Kramer finds a significant government role in stopping declines in birth rates. Sweden’s and France’s pro-natalist programs, which have succeeded, share the characteristics of being universal, not means-tested, and based on gender equality and making it easy for women to balance work and family. The programs in Italy, Japan, and Singapore, which have failed so far, have not devoted sufficient resources consistently enough to make a difference and do not support gender equality and women’s work-family balance, Kramer finds.

About this title

About the Author

Steven Philip Kramer is professor of grand strategy at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense University, in Washington, D.C. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center from 2010–11.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1421411709
• ISBN 13: 9781421411705
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192