In order to lift living standards, the existing national efforts to lower mortality rates had to be balanced by government programs to reduce birth rates. Thus, neo-Malthusian thinking became the basis for national and international programs of population control. These programs were promoted around the world by the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations, and were especially influential in Asian countries such as China and India that adopted comprehensive family planning page 140programs (Figure 5.27). In some instances, success has been declared complete. Singapore established its Population and Family Planning Board in 1965, when its fertility rate was 4.9 lifetime births per woman. By 1986, that rate had declined to 1.7, well below the 2.1 replacement level for developed countries, and the board was abolished as no longer necessary. These programs were promoted around the world by the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations, and were especially influential in Asian countries such as China and India that adopted comprehensive family planning page 140programs (Figure 5.27). In some instances, success has been declared complete. Singapore established its Population and Family Planning Board in 1965, when its fertility rate was 4.9 lifetime births per woman. By 1986, that rate had declined to 1.7, well below the 2.1 replacement level for developed countries, and the board was abolished as no longer necessary. In your opinion what is missing here about these policies? Who else could have been sterilized voluntarily