ABSTRACT
This book has identified how a range of population processes and problems both affect and are affected by development, defined in its broadest sense as economic, social and cultural change. This chapter turns to consider how these processes and problems have been and can in the future be managed, either to minimise or at least reduce the negative effects of population and population change on development, or else to explore how policies might be formulated to maximise or at least enhance the positive aspects of population change on development that we have seen. This will require the better integration of population planning and development planning, as would be suggested by the overall arguments about population and development developed throughout the book. Development can be and has been ‘planned’ in various ways by agencies of government, or by NGOs, often acting on behalf of or funded by governments, or by communities and civil society with specific objectives and the means of realising these objectives set out as an organised programme of government, agency or community activity. In which respects and to what extent can there also be population planning as part of that broader structure of development planning to achieve some desired objectives of population size, growth, distribution, structure or population quality?
