Abstract
Recently the Singapore government has stopped promoting family planning as a general policy applicable to all sections of society. A more selective policy has emerged, in which some groups are still urged to adopt family planning, while others are encouraged to have larger families. Using project evaluation techniques, part of the rationale behind this change is explored in this paper. The question of whether a general family planning program is no longer viable in view of recent developments in the Singapore economy is considered. The results support the movement away from a general policy on the assumption that the economy will continue to grow at the average rate observed since the early 1970s. However, a general policy would still be viable if the negative real growth of 1985/6 were to continue.
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