Environmental Refugees or Economic Migrants?
(2010) As the evidence for global environmental change has accumulated over the past decade, academics, policymakers, and the media have given more attention to the issue of “environmental refugees.”
Area of Expertise: Children, Youth, and Families
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.
PRB Discuss Online: What Is Your ‘Race’? A Question Increasingly Difficult to Answer
By asoares
(2010) The concept of “race” has always been controversial, given ugly associations with slavery, the eugenics movement, and racism.
What Is Poverty, Really? The Case of India
(2010) Countries struggle with measuring their poverty populations, a figure that often determines the distribution of public assistance funds to those in need.
Les grossesses non désirées au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord
Cet article a fait l’objet d’une présentation lors de la Conférence Démographique Internationale de l’IUSSP qui s’est tenue à Marrakech au Maroc en octobre 2009.
Ethiopia at a Crossroads: Demography, Gender, and Development
(December 2009) Ethiopia is the second-largest country in Africa, with an estimated population of nearly 79 million and a growth rate of 2.6 percent per year.
PRB Discuss Online: Engaging Men in the Fight to End Violence Against Women
(2009) One in three women will experience an act of violence in their lifetime, whether it is domestic and interpersonal violence; sexual violence; violence in the name of “culture” or tradition; or systemic violence, as in the use of rape as an instrument of war.
Trends in Breast Cancer Mortality in the United States
(December 2009) Recent recommendations from the U.S.
Child Mortality Decreases Globally and Immunization Coverage Increases, Despite Unequal Access
(2009) Lack of access to quality health care and clean water and sanitation, undernutrition, and other preventable or treatable causes lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of children worldwide every day.
La Fiche de données sur la population mondiale–2009
(2009) Population mondiale : sur la voie des 7 milliards d’habitants d’ici 2011, 12 ans à peine après avoir atteint les 6 milliards en 1999.