Module 9: Population Policy and Family Planning Programmes
  Lecture 31: Effectiveness of Population Policies
 

 

The developing countries have their own problems ( Box 9.1 ). Lack of conceptual clarity and disagreement among the opinion makers, academics and planners is the biggest problem. But there are other problems too: fear of misuse of funds; lack of governance; religious or ethnic resistance; and transfer of responsibilities in the field of family planning and health to private sector, individuals or non-government organizations.