Caetano, André J.; Potter, Joseph E. - In: Population and Development Review 30 (2004) 1, pp. 79-108
Brazilian fertility has fallen rapidly in the last three decades, even in the Northeast, the country's poorest region. Female sterilization has become the most common contraceptive method in this region, where 44 percent of married women aged 15-49 years were sterilized as of 1996. While in...