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socio-economic set up in the countryside to reduce the economic benefits of large families (or, as has already been done, to make offsetting cash payments) the social factors remain, and are likely to prove heavily entrenched."
I agree with Mr Woodward's last point about social factors being likely to prove heavily entrenched. The Chinese, for example, are appalled by the propensity of Vietnamese refugees in the PRC to insist on having six or so children. It is to be hoped that the Cuban head of WHO in Vietnam will be successful in ensuring that health efforts do include family planning programmes. As a matter of interest, are the UN eg the UN Fund for Population Activities, involved in programmes in Vietnam?
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S T Nash
South East Asian Department
cc: Mr Woodward, Economic Advisers
Mr Whitehead, RD
Mr Seller, ODA HKD
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