The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether similar trends have begun to manifest themselves in the two large populous countries...
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2009/02/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4846
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ?
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sex ratio