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10 points for the Matlab family planning project

11/17/2012

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Development achievements in Bangladesh, in part due to opportunities for women and family planning:

When the country became independent, population-control policies were all the rage (this was the period of China’s one-child policy and India’s forced sterilisations). Happily lacking the ability to impose such savage restrictions, the government embarked instead upon a programme of voluntary family planning. It was stunningly successful. It not only halved the rate of fertility within a generation, but also increased women’s influence within their own households. For the first time, wives controlled the size of families.

This program is called Matlab (Note to academics, that's Maht-lab, not Matt-lab) and it was remarkably successful. In fact, the distributive community health model is still being replicated, including in Tanzania where I am doing my research.

Hat tip: BM
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