Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2011) PRB’s ENGAGE presentation, "Family Planning: Pathway to Poverty Reduction," seeks to improve individuals' understanding of how family planning contributes to economic growth and poverty reduction at the family, community, and national levels, and to reposition family planning higher on national and local policy agendas in sub-Saharan Africa.
(2010) Family planning and reproductive health is an important, and often overlooked, component of poverty reduction.
(2010) More than 1.4 billion people around the world live in extreme poverty (defined as income of less than US$1.25 per day), and nearly 2 billion more live just above that level.
(2007) Poverty reduction strategies form the basis of World Bank and International Monetary Fund assistance in the poorest developing countries.
(2007) Poverty reduction strategies form the basis of World Bank and International Monetary Fund assistance in the poorest developing countries.
2004) In September 2004, four devastating hurricanes and tropical storms killed more than 1,500 Haitians, destroyed roughly 90 percent of Grenada, and wreaked billions of dollars of damage on the southern United States.