World Development Report 1984

Box 8.3 Demographic policy objectives
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feeding and use of family planning); justice (age at pendent base in the government (item D), separate
-marriage, incentives and disincentives); women's from the delivery system for family planning. The
affairs, rural development, and cooperatives (inte- institutional arrangements vary: a unit within an
grated population and development projects). For existing ministry of health or planning but with
example, very few countries now give much prior- representatives from many ministries (Tunisia,
ity to raising the legal age of marriage as part of Panama); an extraministerial committee (Egypt,
demographic policy-more likely because the insti- Mexico); or a separate ministry devoted entirely to
tutional framework to do so is poor than because multisectoral population policies (Indonesia).
the costs of implementing such a policy are high. There is no consensus on what works best; sus-
As the task of coordination becomes more com- tained political commitment seems to matter more
plicated, the responsible body may need an inde- to the outcome than organizational structure.
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