The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women's Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population PolicyLexington Books, 2007 - 261 pages In the early 1990s international population policy faced a crisis--it was being attacked from the left and the right, from inside and outside, for a range of failings--of ethics, fact, method, and vision. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo, provided a new policy consensus that helped to overcome this crisis. Starting from the question of how the transition from "population control" to "women's empowerment" was formulated as an international consensus, The Cairo Consensus maps the discourses, technical practices, and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable. Demographic surveys in particular emerge as a crucial, though often overlooked, mechanism for policy production and stability. Using detailed empirical material, including over 30 interviews, combined with cutting edge social and political theory, Saul Halfon offers a new look at population policy that will interest scholars of science and technology, international studies, women's studies, development studies, and post-colonial theory. |
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... UNFPA , have had to work hard to maintain the relevance of Cairo's goals to the overall development project . Along with concern over the language of the Cairo POA is ongoing focus on implementation of various commitments themselves ...
... UNFPA , have had to work hard to maintain the relevance of Cairo's goals to the overall development project . Along with concern over the language of the Cairo POA is ongoing focus on implementation of various commitments themselves ...
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... UNFPA was later renamed the UN Population Fund , but retained its original acronym . 6. While a number of developed countries participated in the WFS , their surveys were qualitatively different . They rarely received technical support ...
... UNFPA was later renamed the UN Population Fund , but retained its original acronym . 6. While a number of developed countries participated in the WFS , their surveys were qualitatively different . They rarely received technical support ...
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... UNFPA Global Population Policy Update . UNFPA Newsletter ( 25 ) , www.unfpa.org/palamentarians/news/newsletters.htm . United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) . 1997. Request for Pro- posals : MEASURE . Washington ...
... UNFPA Global Population Policy Update . UNFPA Newsletter ( 25 ) , www.unfpa.org/palamentarians/news/newsletters.htm . United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) . 1997. Request for Pro- posals : MEASURE . Washington ...
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
1 Competing Conceptions of Consensus | 16 |
Discourses on The | 31 |
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