Towards a Comprehensive Social Policy for Confronting the Population Problem in Egypt

This paper aims to propose specific social policy that tries to both be consistent with the Globalization challenges and tackle the negative impacts of the Egyptian population problem via covering the dimensions of development, gender, reproductive health and rights, sexually transmitted diseases, population information and communication, and partnership and resource mobilization. For seeking to actualize such considerable target, the paper attempts to monitor the three main aspects of the population problem in Egypt by the following: At first, mentioning the current statistics, which reflects the size, distribution, and characteristics of the Egyptian population problem. Second, monitoring the essential types of social policy's classification worldwide that include direct, indirect, and disguised ones as well. Third, tracking the development of Egyptian population policy (1962-2009) and such tracking can lead the paper to reveal the shift of population policies' tendencies from focusing on the family planning dimensions to evaluating this policy from the socio-economic aspect to implicating all public, private, and third sectors through acknowledging the principles of governance. The paper concludes the importance of formulating coalitions of senior policy-makers who were able to identify appropriate rationales, participate in political risk. Such tendency can empower these policy-makers to be strategic contributors on the sustainability of Egyptian population policies.