But cutting government subsidies to impoverished three-child families is not the only policy the Egyptian Government is eyeing to control the birth rate. Lawmakers proposed a number of policies to impose population control measures. Egypt’s ChallengesThe Egyptian government has long implemented population control programs to promote smaller families and contraceptive use. In 2006, total fertility in Egypt had bottomed out at 3.0 children per woman, according to population estimates from the United Nations Population Division. Development, Not Coercive Population Control, Is the SolutionStill, the challenges that Egypt faces, like many other developing countries around the world, are not insurmountable.

Source: Ethiopian News December 05, 2018 22:52 UTC