(2009) Latinos make up a growing share of young Americans: Nationally their share reached 22 percent in 2008, but it already approaches or exceeds 50 percent in several states, including Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
(2003) Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development.
(2007) With continuing political turmoil, emergency rule declared, and concerns about how free and fair January elections will be, Pakistan has been under the spotlight recently. But the political arena isn't the only area where challenges persist.
Income, neighborhood characteristics, and state policies may underly racial disparities in who gets needed care, despite federal efforts to expand home-care programs.
(2004) Human beings have become an increasingly powerful environmental force over the last 10,000 years. With the advent of agriculture 8,000 years ago, we began to change the land.1
(October 2001) For the first time, more half of the world's population will be living in urban areas by the end of this decade.
PRB supports the We Decide project in its critical step of communicating new evidence on the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and young people with disabilities and the gender-based violence (GBV) that many of them endure.
(2008) The demographic divide—the inequality in the population and health profiles of rich and poor countries—is widening.