Deborah Balk
This paper examines the relationship between women's status and fertility in two regions of rural Bangladesh. Based on individual and household-level survey data, women's status is measured through four constructs. The covariates of these four aspects of women's status vary considerably and confirm ...
Deborah Balk
(1997). Defying Gender Norms in Rural Bangladesh: A Social Demographic Analysis. Population Studies: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 153-172.
George B. Simmons, Deborah Balk, Khodezatul K. Faiz
The Family Planning Health Services Project in Matlab is often seen as more expensive than similar activities carried out by the government of Bangladesh. At the same time, it as been observed that the project is much more effective. The alleged high cost of the project is said to make it difficult ...
Deborah Balk
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Zhen Liu, Deborah Balk
Abstract Like much of Asia, Bangladesh will see an urban transition in the coming decades. Yet, its urbanisation will be unprecedented in terms of climate vulnerabilities. Little is known about urbanisation and migrants, in the context of these vulnerabilities, in part because demographic inquiry an...
Deborah Balk
Charles N. Oberg, Deborah Caselton
Introduction This paper will examine four areas of Sub-Sahara Africa that have experienced war, genocide and crimes against humanity that emerged towards the end of the twentieth century and have transitioned into the twenty-first century. It is imperative to state that similar atrocities have occur...
Arthur M. Eckstein, Thomas N. Bisson, James A. Brundage, John E. Wills et al.
PETER S. WELLS. The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered. Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 335. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein DAVID ABULAFIA, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History: V: c. 1198–c. 1300. New York: Cambridge University Pres...