Over the past 15 years, researchers, advocates, and funders have successfully sparked significant interest in the potential acceleration in economic growth that can occur as population age structures mature, commonly referred to as the demographic dividend.
By asoares
New research on neighborhood racial segregation and sentiments toward people of color is highlighting how racism-related stress may be contributing to inequities in premature birth.
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.
In 2013 the African Union (AU) launched a 50-year development blueprint, Agenda 2063, which rallies AU member states around a vision to transform the continent into a global powerhouse.
By Julia Greene
The U.S. Policy Communications Training Program builds on PRB’s 40-year legacy of training researchers to bridge the gap between research findings and the policy development process.
Girls’ educational attainment affects the human capital of Burkina Faso’s future labor force, shaping their economic opportunities and their country’s economic growth.
Retarder Le Mariage Et La Procréation Peut Améliorer Les Résultats Scolaires Dans La Région Du Sahel Au Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso’s Sahel Region, an administrative region in the northeastern part of the country, girls are more likely to drop out of primary and lower secondary school than girls nationally, resulting in lower girls’ educational attainment in the Sahel Region compared to the rest of the country.
To address the issue of food loss between the field to the end-user, a team from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has designed and evaluated an off-grid, clean energy cooling system for low-income farmers.
This innovation brief describes the growing impact of hydroelectric dams on the Amazon River ecosystem in Brazil.