How reduced demand for children and access to family planning accelerated the fertility decline in Colombia

Type Working Paper - Populaton, Health, and Nutrition
Title How reduced demand for children and access to family planning accelerated the fertility decline in Colombia
Author(s)
Volume 924
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 1992
URL http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wbkwbrwps/924.htm
Abstract
What happened in Colombia shows how a well-managed family planning program is more likely to succeed when the women in a country already want fewer children so that women are motivated to control fertility. In such a country, introducing family planning services simply facilitates and speeds up a fertility decline that would tend to occur anyway, albeit more slowly.

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