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Discuss the evolution and rationale of population policies across the globe.

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  • Population Geography

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A population policy is a deliberate set of state measures intended to alter fertility, mortality, migration or spatial distribution, directly or through incentives. Its history is not a straight line from pro-natalism to control and back, but a sequence of reversals, each driven by whatever the state of the day feared most — weakness, famine,…

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  • Population as State Power: Mercantilism and Cameralism
  • The Malthusian Turn and the Poor-Law Debates
  • Interwar Pro-Natalism in Europe
  • The Post-War Anti-Natalist Consensus
  • The Targets Era, 1960s to 1977
  • Bucharest 1974 against Mexico City 1984
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion
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