IS POPULATION-POLICY NECESSARY - LATIN-AMERICA AND THE ANDEAN COUNTRIES

In Latin America, not only do the timing and pace of fertility decline seem to be weakly correlated with explicit fertility policies, but the relationship between policies and programs is also far from straightforward. Countries like Peru, with explicit population policies, often have weak official family planning programs and modest contraceptive prevalence rates, while others like Brazil, which lack a policy commitment to induce fertility decline, show high contraceptive prevalence (although a very limited method choice predominates). The process by which policy, programs, and prevalence relate to one another in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru is illustrated. -from Author