Kerala India Case Study
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- Created on: 14-03-17 11:26
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- Kerala India. Started in 1952 focusing on social changes to create a society that encourages smaller families.
- Background
- Kerala's 32 million people make up 3.4% of India's population
- Population density of 819 people per sqkm. (3 times the Indian average
- Currently has the lowest population growth rate in Inida
- Education
- Improving education standards and treating girls as equal with boys
- Female literacy has gone up from 50% across India to 90% in Kerala.
- More girls now go on to University than boys
- Women will choose to have a career path - birth rate will continue to fall.
- Women have a higher status in society
- Adult literacy classes provided in towns and villages
- Educating people to understand the benefits of small families
- Most villages have free libraries
- Improving education standards and treating girls as equal with boys
- Healthcare
- Improving child healthcare through vaccination programmes
- Infant mortality has reduced from 65 to 12 so people no longer need to have so many children
- Free contraception and advice
- Improving child healthcare through vaccination programmes
- Social
- Encouraged a higher age of marriage
- Allowed maternity leave for the first 2 babies only
- Provided extra retirement benefits for those with smaller families
- Land Reform Programme
- Land in Kerala was redistributed so no family was landless
- No family was allowed more than 8ha.
- Everybody could be self sufficient
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