Population Politics and Development - From the Policies to the Clinics

By Lisa Ann Richey
Palgrave Macmillan

How do global discourses like the overpopulation "problem" get translated and interpreted as they travel from international conferences to policies and clinics in the Third World? Processes of international development are contingent upon shared understandings of the problems to be solved. When interventions fail, policies are usually implicated but not held up to any systematic analysis. The book analyzes the politics of the emergence of population as a "problem" and family planning as its "solution". How did African policymakers come to embrace typical family planning policies and neo-liberal approaches that value limiting a woman's offspring? How do local men and women interpret the rapidly shifting population messages in ways that make sense as they try to raise healthy children in a context of economic uncertainty?

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