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How People in India ‘Really’ Live
(2008) Media reports on the "exploding" middle class in India would lead any reader to believe that Indian society is undergoing a top-to-bottom transformation into a society of Western-style consumers. A recent Business Week article quoted a McKinsey Global Institute study that claimed that India, in one generation, would become a nation of upwardly mobile middle-class households, consuming goods ranging from high-end cars to designer clothing.
Fertility Declining in the Middle East and North Africa
(April 2008) The Middle East and North Africa includes some of the world's fastest growing countries, and the region as a whole saw its population quadruple in the second part of the 20th century, from 104 million to 400 million.
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U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000
(2010) This has been a tumultuous decade for the United States. During the first 10 years of the 21st Century, there was a major terrorist attack, a housing meltdown, a severe economic recession, and a significant downturn in the U.S. stock market.
U.S. Marriage, Divorce, Childbearing Trends Bring New Risks for Parents, Children
(2015) Three presentations about increased childbearing outside marriage, more parents with children from more than one partner, and a shrinking share of married people in the U.S. population have brought new complexity to U.S. family life, and risks for the health and well-being of children and parents.
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Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
Mutilations génitales féminines et excision : données et tendances – mise à jour 2014
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Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Anti-Poverty Tax Credits Linked to Declines in Reports of Child Neglect, Youth Violence, and Juvenile Convictions
A temporary expansion of the child tax credit helped fuel a dramatic drop in child poverty in 2021.
PRB Discuss Online: The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Poverty in the United States
(2010) Most poor children achieve less, exhibit more problem behaviors, and are less healthy than children raised in more-affluent families. Looking beyond these well-known correlations between poverty and negative outcomes in childhood, recent studies have assessed the effects of childhood poverty in the United States on later attainment and health.
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Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
Rapport. Mutilations génitales féminines et excision : données et tendances (2014)
(juin 2014) Selon les estimations, de 100 millions à 140 millions de jeunes filles et de femmes dans le monde ont subi une mutilation génitale féminine ou une excision (MGF/E), et plus de 3 millions de filles courent le risque d’être excises chaque année sur le seul continent africain.
World Population Trends 2012
World population grew to 7.06 billion in mid-2012 after having passed the 7 billion mark in 2011.