Jurriaan Maessen
Explosive Reports
October 4, 2012
On October 2nd a retired demographer at the World Bank admitted that
vaccination campaigns are an integral part of the World Bank’s
population policies. John F. May, the Bank’s leading demographer from
1992 to 2012, told the French web journal Sens Public (and in turn transcribed
by the think-tank May works for) that vaccination campaigns, especially
in so-called “high-fertility countries”, are means to achieve
population reduction in those countries. May:
“The means used to implement population policies are “policy levers”
or targeted actions such as vaccination campaigns or family planning to
change certain key variables.”
Defining “population policy” as “a set of interventions implemented
by government officials to better manage demographic variables and to
try to attune population changes (number, structure by age and
breakdown) to the country’s development aspirations”, May continues to
explain that the World Bank is taking up the lead role in achieving
general population reduction.
It is not the first time that World Bank officials boast about their
willingness to implement strict population control policies in the Third
World. In its 1984 World Development Report,
the World Bank suggests using “sterilization vans” and “camps” to
facilitate its sterilization policies for the third world. The report
also threatens nations who are slow in implementing the bank’s
population policies with “drastic steps, less compatible with individual
choice and freedom.”:
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