Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol.25, No. 2

Published since 1986 by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asia-Pacific Population Journal brings out high-quality, evidence-based and forward-looking articles on a wide range of population and development issues in Asia and the Pacific. This issue of the Asia-Pacific Population Journal contains the following articles:

• Addressing Unmet Need: Potential for Increasing Contraceptive Prevalence in the Philippines
• Below to Above Replacement: Dramatic Increase in Fertility and its Determinants in Sri Lanka
• The Effect of Remittances on Return Migration and its Relation to Household Wealth: The Case of Rural Thailand
• Determinants of Living Arrangements of Elderly in Orissa, India: An Analysis

Contents

Abstracts .......................................................................................... 1
Articles
Addressing Unmet Need: Potential for Increasing
Contraceptive Prevalence in the Philippines
By Paulyn Jean B. Acacio-Claro and Maridel P. Borja ................. 5
Below to above Replacement: Dramatic Increase in
Fertility and its Determinants in Sri Lanka
By W. Indralal De Silva, B. Nishanthi Perera
and K. Chamara Anuranga .............................................................. 27
The Effect of Remittances on Return Migration
and its Relation to Household Wealth:The Case of Rural Thailand
By Yuying Tong and Martin Piotrowski ........................................ 53
Determinants of Living Arrangements of Elderly
in Orissa, India: An Analysis
By A.K. Panigrahi ........................................................................... 97