| Abstract: | After a brief consideration of some of the consequences of the present high rates of population growth in a global and African context, the author outlines the steps that are required to introduce a population policy for Zimbabwe Rhodesia. The government must first of all create the demand for a change, by taking action to encourage small families in five closely related socio-economic fields, viz. reducing infant and child mortality, expanding basic education, increasing productivity of small farmers and expanding earning opportunities in the cities for low-income groups, organising a more equitable distribution of economic growth, and enhancing the social, economic and political status of women. Having created the demand for change, the next stage is for the government to satisfy the demand for change, by taking five main lines of action, viz. supporting a continuing public information programme, providing family planning services, manipulating the balance of incentives and disincentives, promoting reproductive biological research, and promoting a social consensus. Ref. |
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