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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

Fostering Economic Growth, Equity, and Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Family Planning

This report explores how family planning could and should play a much larger role in Africa’s future through strengthening global competitiveness, advancing equitable growth, and building resilience against natural and manmade stressors and shocks.

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Social Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Disasters

Susan Cutter is a distinguished professor of geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. Cutter researches what makes people and the places where they live vulnerable to extreme events such as hurricanes or tornadoes, and how vulnerability and resilience are measured, monitored, and assessed.

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PRB Discuss Online: A Call to Action: Increasing Global Investments in Youth

(2010) With almost half of the world's population under age 25, investments in young people are vital to improve economic and social outcomes and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)

Family Instability Linked to Behavior Problems in Kindergarten

(2018) Children who enter kindergarten after experiencing repeated household changes are more likely to display problem behaviors that inhibit learning and disrupt classrooms, Paula Fomby of the University of Michigan and Stefanie Mollborn of the University of Colorado show.

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Project: Breakthrough RESEARCH

Interactive. Exploring Pathways to Social and Behavior Change Impact

Social and Behavioral Change ( SBC) intervention can increase modern contraceptive use depends on existing behaviors and attitudes, the effectiveness of the intervention, and how much the intervention is scaled up.

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