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02863 - [A1993058]
Impact of Population Assistance to an Asian Country. ID-77-10;
B-156518. Jujy 12, 1977. 48 pp. + 6 appendices (:.7 pp.)
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Com trolxer General.
Issue Area: International Economic and Military Programs: U.S.
Development Assistance Overseas (6031.
Contact: International Div.
Budget Function: International Affairs: Foreign Economic and
Financial Assistance (151).
Organization Concerned: Agency for International Development;
Department of Defense.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on International
Relations; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Congress.
The population growth rate ia Pakistan is one of the
highest in the world and constitutes one of the country's most
serious problems. Findings/Conclusions: Although about $164
million has been spent on birth control programs since 1.960,
including about $59 million in LT.S. assistance, 13'istan's rate
of growth is still 3%. The social acceptability of large
families as well as social and cultural norms of a largely
subsistence-level society and the need for greater government
support were the chief tirogram difficulties. Little attention
was paid to the incentives necessary to cause couples to want
smaller families. Further, the Agency for International
Development (AID) mistakenly assumed that there was a latent
demand in the society for family planning services.
Recommendations: AID should reassess the advisability of
continuing assistance to developing countries (a) which do not
have a management system and an information system in existence
(or under development) sufficient to reasonably assure that
program objectives are being met or (b) whose government and
institutions have not demonstrated a willingness to carry out
the pr.,gram. AID should develop and implement additional and
innovative approaches to population problems in all the
developinq countries through such measures as the AID-sponsored
research planned on the determinants of fertility in Pakistan.
The contractor's evaluation of the Pakistan program should be
disseminated to all contraceptive program officers ani used to
formulate any program to lower fertility. Greater coordination
among volunteer organizations and dopors of population
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