World Population Policies.

The United Nations World Population Conference 1974 will be held in August of next year. It will be a political gathering at which delegates speak for their governments and not as individuals, members of the academic community, or representatives of private organizations. As such, it will be the first of its kind concerned with population The 1974 conference will consider population trends and future prospects. It will take up the questions of the relationships among population and social and economic development, human rights, resources and the environment, and the family. A draft World Population Plan of Action will be considered. It is anticipated that certain parallel activities will be carried out simultaneously with the conference. The conference should succeed in focusing attention on population matters in national and universal perspectives. It should also advance the definition of national population policies and, from the totality of those, an international policy may emerge and find expression in the World Population Plan of Action.

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World Population Trends, Population and Development Interrelations and Population Policies: 1983 Monitoring Report.

Population and Development Review ◽

10.2307/1973127 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 358

Author(s):

[Geoffrey McNicoll]

Keyword(s):

Population Trends ◽

World Population ◽

Population Policies ◽

Monitoring Report

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Neo-Malthusianism and development: shifting interpretations of a contested paradigm

Journal of Global History ◽

10.1017/s1740022811000052 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 75-97 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Marc Frey

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Socioeconomic Development ◽

Reproductive Behaviour ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Development Theory ◽

World Population ◽

Population Policies ◽

Global Movement ◽

The Individual ◽

The Cold War

AbstractThis article focuses on the connection between the ideology of neo-Malthusianism and development theory and practice from the mid 1940s to the present. First identified by a few demographic experts, population policies and family planning gradually turned into a global movement for the control of world population. From the beginning, population discourses and policies were intertwined with strategies of socioeconomic development. They were also a reflection of strategic concerns and deliberations about the role of the West in the Cold War and vis-à-vis the emerging Global South. Focusing on the collective impact of individual choices, population controllers assumed that top-down approaches could swiftly change reproductive behaviour. They gave priority to preventing births over health, education, and female empowerment. Family planning began to shift its emphasis from the collective to the individual only in response to outright coercive actions and with the emergence of new actors, most notably feminists, from the late 1970s on.

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The population control bill, 2021: exploring newer perspectives

International Journal of Reproduction Contraception Obstetrics and Gynecology ◽

10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20213511 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 3668

Author(s):

Prerana Nagabhushana ◽

Avir Sarkar

Keyword(s):

Growth Rate ◽

Population Growth ◽

Reproductive Rights ◽

Population Control ◽

World Population ◽

Population Explosion ◽

Population Policies ◽

The World ◽

Net Growth Rate ◽

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As we observe the World Population Day on 11th July, the current population stands at roughly 7.9 billion in 2021, with India bagging the second place at 1.39 billion. The net growth rate stands at 1.1% or 83 million per year and the projected world population by 2050 is estimated to be 9.7 billion. These figures are alarming to us-the millennials, who grew up writing ominous essays on ‘population explosion’ at school. Governments across the world, historically Romania to more recently China, have adopted population policies to control the rate of population growth to cater to their advantage-either economically or politically. Some of them directly against reproductive rights- to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to be able to do so without discrimination, coercion and violence.

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