Product of a committees on Civil, Political, Economic, Socio Cultural, Labour, IDPs, Women, Migrant Workers and Children Rights, Torture, convened by the SL National Action Plan for Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, 2011-2016 project.
The publication by Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon outlines in a nutshell the policies and programmes that influenced the transition from a high population growth rate to a relatively low growth over a period of six decades.