Analyzing Bongaarts model and its applications in the context of Bangladesh

Achieving appropriate fertility rate is important for any country. In spite of having a higher fertility rate than desired Bangladesh has been able to reduce it in a remarkable extent in the recent years. This decline in fertility has created much interest among researchers, policy makers and academics because such dramatic change in fertility has occurred in Bangladesh without a substantial improvement in the socioeconomic status, health conditions and other factors which are usually required for fertility decline.