Open AccessGender Inequalities and Demographic Behavior: Ghana/Kenya
Author(s) -
Anastasia J. Gage,
W Njogu
Publication year - 1994
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.31899/pgy1994.1004
Subject(s) - population , inequality , developing country , equity (law) , economic growth , resource distribution , population growth , distribution (mathematics) , geography , gender equity , development economics , socioeconomics , political science , resource allocation , sociology , demography , economics , market economy , mathematical analysis , mathematics , law
Ghana and Kenya were the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa whose governments recognized the potentially detrimental effects of rapid population growth on economic development and, as a result, adopted and implemented national population policies. This is one of three reports on the relationship between gender equity, family structure and dynamics, and the achievement of reproductive choice that was prepared by the Population Council for the 1994 International Year of the Family and the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. These reports provide critical reviews of the relationship between gender inequality and demographic behavior in three demographically significant, culturally distinct parts of the developing world: Egypt, India, and Ghana and Kenya. Their purpose is to help governments and international agencies design and implement policies that are affirmative of women, sensitive to the family’s central role in resource allocation and distribution, and effective in achieving broad-based population and development goals.