Demographic developments and population policies in Ba'thist Syria

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Demographic developments and population policies in Ba'thist Syria

Onn Winckler ; foreword by Moshe Ma'oz

Sussex Academic Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-208) and index

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An analysis of the demographic and socioeconomic developments in Syria during the late twentieth century

Table of Contents

  • Sources for Syrian demographic trends and development
  • population growth - natural increase, mortality rates and life expectancy, marriage and divorce, economic consequences of high rates of natural increase, contraceptive use
  • the spatial distribution of the population - rural-to-urban migration, economic consequences of the rapid urbanization process)
  • Syrian migration abroad
  • demographic policies of the Syrian authorities
  • demography - economy and political change under Asad.

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