Abstract
Issues of population policy are brought into sharper focus through an examination of the rationales for and types of governmental action. Governments are providers of public goods: this function may include the design and execution of suitable measures to modify demographic behavior. In particular through public intervention members of a society may be able to secure for themselves a higher level of welfare by correcting situations in which some of the costs of demographic acts are imposed on parties not responsible for the relevant decisions. This article discusses the main elements and knowledge requirements of the population policy-making process and illustrates the nature of the problems encountered through an overview of the directions of contemporary fertility policy in developing countries. (authors)
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