Open AccessFertility Control and Income Distribution in Developing Countries With National Family Planning Programmes
Author(s) -
Naohiro Ogawa
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v17i4pp.431-450
Subject(s) - fertility , developing country , distribution (mathematics) , control (management) , family planning , income distribution , economics , economic growth , demographic economics , demography , research methodology , sociology , population , inequality , management , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Development policy, by and large, has emphasized economictransfor¬mation in the direction of sustained and rapid increases in thenational product. In developing countries, however, the recent rapideconomic gains have been unequally distributed among countries, regionswithin countries and socio¬economic groups.1 As a result of sucheconomic inequality, development planners have increasingly questionedthe validity of aggregate growth as the main objective of developmentstrategy, thus turning their attention to social transformation in thedirection of a more widespread access of the population to provisions ofgovernment goods, such as education, health services and adequatehousing [35]. Such a development policy involves an interdisciplinaryand comprehensive approach in which population policy has a significantrole to play.