It would be too expensive to significantly reduce global population growth rates. Anyway, the United States already spends too much on foreign aid. Moreover, the Program of Action envisions developing countries themselves providing two-thirds of the necessary money. Of the remaining amount, the United States would only be responsible for a share of the total. It should not be hard to increase spending to cover our responsibilities under the ICPD Program of Action.
Many European countries devote a much larger share of their budgets.
France and Denmark allot more than 3 percent, for example, while Germany and Sweden spend over 2 percent. Unfortunately, the current US Congress has been reducing the budget for humanitarian foreign assistance and for environmentally sustainable development, even though this will make it more difficult for poor nations to lift themselves from poverty, harm the health of large numbers of women and children, and will probably lead to hundreds of thousands of unintended pregnancies each year.