In its report to the 1994 International
Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD), the
Philippines Commission on Population
sets out the rationale for the
government’s continued concern
with and attention to reproductive
health; the status of women; and
the interrelationships linking population,
resources, environment,
and development. The ICPD document
also refers to the past
quarter century of slow decline in
population growth and warns of a
“long, arduous road to a demographic
transition” ahead.