er the world is going to run out of food, space or breathable air (Carrington, 1994).Public policy does not reflect a holistic perspective; rather, it reveals considerable fragmentation at all levels of government. Hence, there are always contrasting views about the best war to achieve a solution or even hoe to approach the problem. ConclusionCan we agree? As Time magazine reported "The Cairo Conference on Population and Development was supposed to be a landmark meeting, a harmonious gathering of nations to establish the principle that the key to curbing population growth lies in giving women more control over their own health and reproduction. Instead the conference was on danger of falling apart before it even got started. Although many issues, in fact, more than 90% of a draft document has been agreed upon by representatives of 180 United Nations member countries. The remaining 10% contained some bombshells.The Cairo conference on Population and Development was the culmination of multinational efforts that began twenty years ago, in August 1974, when the international community met in Bucharest, Romania for the first intergovernmental political meeting on population. The major achievement of the Bucharest Conference, in additional to focussing worldwide attention on the subject of population through the United Nations, designated World Population Year 1974, was the adoption by consensus of the World Population Plan of Action. This document, which became one of the major international sectoral development strategies, is today the most comprehensive international statement ever adopted on population and its interrelationships with socio-economic development. The plan has serve as the guidepost for the formulation and implementation of population policies and programs by national governments and has been the basic framework for technical cooperation in population among countries. As a conceptualization of population issues and their int...
