ABSTRACT
Development, the last word in the title of the Cairo Conference, was supposed to be the cornerstone of that gathering. This was to be achieved through renewed discussion of the relationships between demographic change and development factors within the framework of the concept of sustainable development, adopted by the international community in Rio. In reality, however, development remained the poor relation, and the few development-related measures in the Programme of Action are those for harmonizing population and development trends. They are summarized below.
