Some Relevant Issues in Population Programmes in West Bengal and Bangladesh

This chapter highlights key policy issues of West Bengal and Bangladesh. In both the countries, the primary aim of the national programmes is to inform, clarify, strengthen and prioritize the role of the government in shaping country in all its dimensions—investments in different sectors, promotion of good economic and human development through cross-sectoral actions, access to technologies, developing human resources, encouraging pluralism, building knowledge base, developing better financial protection strategies, strengthening regulation, etc.