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invite you to a book launch of a recent Harvard University Press
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| | Fatal Misconception |
| | The Struggle to Control World Population |
| | by Matthew Connelly |
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| | In the 1970s a host of NGOs and |
| | international organizations, including |
| | the World Bank, declared a ?population |
| | crisis? and demanded an emergency |
| | response, including earmarked |
| | appropriations and "incentive payments" |
| | to persuade poor people to be |
| | sterilized. So much money poured in so |
| | fast that spending became an end onto |
| | itself. The pressure to scale up and |
| | show results transformed organizations |
| | ostensibly dedicated to helping people |
| | plan their families into tools for |
| | social engineering. Leaders like Robert |
| | McNamara pushed ?crash programs," even |
| | though the risks entailed were palpable, |
| | including the long-range sustainability |
| | of programs that really were devoted to |
| | advancing reproductive rights and |
| | health. Rather than accept constraints |
| | or accountability, they preferred to let |
| | population control go out of control. It |
| | finally culminated with the Emergency |
| | Period in India, when over eight million |
| | people were sterilized in a single year. |
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Auditorium JB1-080
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Matthew Connelly
Associate Professor of History,Columbia University
Professor Connelly works in international and global history. His
publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria?s Fight for
Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002) and
research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The
International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American
Historical Review, The Review française d?histoire d?Outre-mer, and
Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international
affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest.
MODERATED BY
Varun Gauri
Senior Economist
Mr.Gauri is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of
the World Bank. His research focuses on politics and governance in
the social sectors, and aims to combine quantitative and qualitative
methods in economics and social science research. He is leading
research projects on the impact of legal strategies to claim
economic and social rights, and on the cross-country diffusion of
development innovations. He has published papers on a wide variety
of topics, including the political economy of government responses
to HIV/AIDS, the strategic choices of development NGOs, the use of
vouchers for basic education, and immunization in developing
countries, and was a core team member of the 2007 World Development
Report.
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