505 Search Results Found For : "demographic dividend"
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
The Four Dividends: How Age Structure Change Can Benefit Development
This web feature expands the concept of the demographic dividend to project four potential sets of benefits—in addition to economic growth, it outlines benefits in child survival, education, and political stability.
PRB Discuss Online: The Middle East Youth Bulge, Causes and Consequences
(2008) Recent demographic trends have created a youth bulge in the Middle East and North Africa, with nearly one in every five people age 15 to 24. Despite its oil wealth and improved health and education systems, the region's political, social, and economic systems still do not meet the needs of this rapidly growing young population.
PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Ensuring that family planning, reproductive health, and population issues are key for sustainable and equitable economic growth and development.
Project: Demographic Dividend: Ensuring Regional and National Commitment and Action
Infographic. L’émergence de la République démocratique du Congo: Le rôle du dividende démographique
(2016) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced a period of sustained economic growth, averaging about 9 percent between 2013 and 2015.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Population Age Structure and Pathways to Inclusive, Effective Governance
Among countries with a youthful population, a window of opportunity to achieve key development goals opens across four sectors―health, education, the economy, and governance―as fertility declines and the age structure of the population gets older.
Demographic Challenges of the Sahel
This article focuses on the demographics of the 10 countries that make up the Sahel region--Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Sudan.