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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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Engineering Global Population: The Reasoning and Policies of the Population Council

January 1, 2001

The Population Council, the first "global player" in the field of population, was founded in 1952 and is still, in the year of 2001, in operation. Within these nearly 50 years, its view of the problems of population, the strategies to address them, and its perception of the respective results have changed several times, in significant ways. In the following pages I trace these changes from the founding of the Population Council to the early 1970s. I am not aiming at a chronological history of the Population Council; rather, I will try to characterize what I perceive as distinct phases of its history, each differing in how "population problem" is perceived, in what is seen as possible for an organization like the Population Council in addressing the "problem," as well as in the strategies and policies current in the U.S. and abroad.

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