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Impact of Population Assistance to an African Country. ID-77-3;
B-179421: B-156518. June 23, ?977. 45 pp. * 9 appeidices (20
pp.).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: International Economic and Military Programs: U.S.
Development Assistance Overseas (603).
Contact: International Div.
Budget Function: International Affairs: Fureign Economic and
Financial Assistance (151).
Organizat-cn Concerned: Department of State; Agency for
iiternational Development.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on International
Relations; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Congress.
Authority: Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, sec.
104b.
Rapid population growth combined with poor social and
economic conditions is hindering development efforts in many
countries. African birthrates are among the highest in the
world, and population growth rates are expected to increase as
improved health care lovers mortality. Ghana is one African
nation that has recognized its population problem. it has
promulgated an official population policy, and has established a
family-planning program. The United States has provided about
75% of the $15.9 million of population assistance to Ghana.
Ghana's program, however, has reached only a small percentage of
the population, primarily urban. Recommendations: In planning
development assistance for Ghana and other African nations, GAO
recommends that the Administrator of the Agency for
International Development, as appropriate: encourage
governments, and provide support when necessary, to examine the
relationships between social and economic change and fertility;
help go~ernments to establish population policies which
encourage the types of social and economic development
identified as having a maximum impact on fertility; consider the
impact cn population growth of planned U.S. development projects
and work to integrate population and development projects; and
take actions to encourage the establishment of an effective,
systemL-'ic coordinating mechanism for population assistance in
Ghana and in other countries where none exists. (Author/SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaacjp0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)