100 MILLION | While a growing population means a larger workforce, it also means more dependents in a country where about 25 per cent of people are living in poverty, he said. He said the Philippines had to find a way to bring services to the poorest families while also lowering the average number of children that fertile women will bear in their lifetimes. Wed like to push the fertility rate down to two children per (womans) lifetime, from the current level of an average of three per woman, he said. SPP POLICY: Australia should tie foreign aid wherever possible to the improvement of economic and environmental sustainability, with a particular focus on female rights and education, and on opportunities for women and couples to access reproductive health and voluntary family planning services to help prevent unwanted pregnancies.
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