title: Paths to fertility reduction: the 'policy cube'.
abstract: This article has enumerated several policy paths now used or proposed for dealing with rapid population growth in developing countries; has identified three standards by which such options can be appraised; has appraised policies against standards, and has embodied that process in a 'policy cube' to represent the trade-offs involved. In a rapidly evolving field like population policy, everything is subject to change--paths, criteria and scores--but the underlying process of selection has a certain constancy. If not this set, then another--but the problem remains. It is in that spirit of continuing discourse that this effort is offered.
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011155:Population Control