PRB Discuss Online: How Can Family Planning Programs Reduce Poverty? Evidence From Bangladesh
(2010) Family planning is one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the developing world.
(2010) Family planning is one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the developing world.
This policy brief and accompanying fact sheet explain the connection in Ethiopia between a potential demographic dividend and investments in health, education, and job growth; and prioritize actions and investments in young people.
Project: Population and Poverty (PopPov) Research Network
This report highlights new research from the Population and Poverty (PopPov) Research Initiative that bolsters the case for investments in adolescent reproductive health and family planning programs and identifies knowledge gaps where research is still needed.
(2007) The U.S. Census Bureau plans to eliminate the "foster child" relationship category on its questionnaires for the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey. They will be counted with other children, but foster children's characteristics as a group will not be available.
(2012) Remote rural communities in developing countries typically face the related challenges of extreme poverty, poor health, and environmental degradation. And population growth often exacerbates these challenges.
(2017) An African Union (AU) Assembly decision in January 2016 established the theme for 2017 as “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend Through Investments in Youth.”