Guidelines for integrating population variables in development planning for ECA member states

Abstract

In the 1950s the UN called on its member States to take into account the complex interrelationships "between copulation and development in their social and economic Planning l/. The World Population Plan of Action (WPPA) adopted in Bucharest (197*0 also called on governments to devise appropriate action programmes to integrate population measurer into their social and economic goals and strategies. The International Conference or. Population (ICP: Mexico City, 1984) while reappraising the WPPA recommendations-, also explicitly urged policy makers to give priority to an integrated approach that takes into account the interrelationships between population and development. Accordingly, since 1974, many governments formulated policies and programmed purporting to take into account the interrelationships between population and development