Lecture "Individual Choices with Global Repercussions: Family Planning Programmes and ‘Third World’ Development in the Post-War Era" by Corinna Unger (Bremen).
In the post-1945 era, rapid population growth in the so-called developing countries caused anxiety among politicians and experts concerned with the economic and social development of these countries. Family planning programmes were promoted by international agencies, national governments, and non-governmental actors in order to reduce population growth and accelerate ‘modernization’. The lecture will look at the nexus between the social scientific approaches of the post-war era and population programmes, and the transnational transfer of knowledge between c.1945 and 1970.GHIL in co-operation with the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
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