A decade after the World Population Conference in Bucharest, delegates representing 146 states convened in Mexico City to examine world population problems and recommend action. The political environment of the Mexico conference caused North-South economic issues, which dominated Bucharest, to remain in the background. Planning and organization of the conference served to emphasize consensus on most issues, while highlighting the discordant behavior of the US delegation. The US position itself had domestic political origins and reflected a victory of--or concession to--a coalition of heterogeneous groups of the New Right in an election year. If in fact the US position at Mexico City foreshadows a permanent shift in US population assistance activity, it will have significant implications for international population policies and programs.
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