| Abstract: | This article examines the extent to which Nigeria's population policy has been fed by the recommendations of the three International Conferences on Population and Development (ICPD), which took place between 1974 and 1994, and the African Population Conferences (APC) of 1971, 1984 and 1992. The analysis shows that Nigeria has endorsed global population policy recommendations since 1974, but went without an official population policy until 1988. The economic shocks of the mid-1970s which resulted in the structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s significantly increased the desirability of population policies as an instrument for mediating socioeconomic development. The article analyses Nigeria's population policies of 1988 and 2004 in comparison with international recommendations, indicating that Nigeria has had problems in keeping up with international developments. Ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
AfricaBib 
Periodical article
Leiden University catalogue
WorldCat