Project: Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)
Damming the Ecosystems of Amazonia
This innovation brief describes the growing impact of hydroelectric dams on the Amazon River ecosystem in Brazil.
Project: Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)
This innovation brief describes the growing impact of hydroelectric dams on the Amazon River ecosystem in Brazil.
(2002) It is difficult to compare poverty levels in different countries. Countries not only have different currencies, they have different family income levels, consumption patterns, prices for goods and services (which affect purchasing power), spending patterns, and family and demographic characteristics.
(2009) The financial decisions facing older adults as they reach retirement age are increasingly more difficult.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2017, produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides the latest data on the practice in 29 developing countries with representative and comparable data—although FGM/C occurs worldwide.
(2014) Ukraine, a former republic of the Soviet Union, has undergone a series of dramatic demographic changes since its independence in 1991. Most significant, its birth rate declined sharply following independence, mirroring similar developments in other former Soviet republics.
Drones might seem to be a natural solution to maintaining a more even contraceptive supply in hard-to-reach areas, but family planning supplies aren’t yet the ideal cargo.
Policy changes could reduce the disproportionate burden of care work on American women, researchers said.
(2012) Nearly 240 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, or one person in every four, lack adequate food for a healthy and active life, and record food prices and drought are pushing more people into poverty and hunger.1 At the same time, the world’s population has now surpassed 7 billion, and news headlines that in the past have asked “Can we feed the world?” are beginning to ask the equally important question, “How many will there be to feed?”