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Family planning programs have been highly successful over the past 30 years in providing women in developing countries with desired access to contraceptive services and helping to reduce fertility rates.
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Begins Rand's Population Matters program, designed to synthesize the policy-relevant results of demographic research and communicate them to people who make population policy. The first topic was chosen not because of any dearth of information about it available to policymakers, but because so much of that information emerges from advocacy groups and ideological perspectives that it is viewed as partisan contributions to debates rather than facts. Sets out the need, the record, and the cost of family planning in unindustrialized countries. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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