Report. Empowering Women, Developing Society: Female Education in the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic)
(2003) Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals’ well-being and societies’ economic and social development.
Area of Expertise: Population Dynamics and Planning
What’s a Household? What’s a Family?
Individuals relate to society through their families and households. When these units add or lose members — or when the household members grow older, divorce, or marry — there can be profound social and economic consequences.
Politics and Science in Census Taking
(2003) A census is inevitably a blend of politics and science — politics because power and money are linked to how many people live where, science because the technically complex undertaking draws on many scientific disciplines.
Population et développement au Vietnam
By asoares
Changement démographique radical
(Février 2003) Lors du recensement du 1er avril 1999, la population du Vietnam dépassait tout juste le cap des 76 millions d’habitants, ce qui en faisait le 13e pays le plus peuplé du monde.
Report. Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world’s population, are undergoing environmental decline.
L’Indonésie ploie sous le fardeau de problèmes démographiques, de pressions politiques et de tensions sociales
(2003) Encore sous le coup des répercussions de la crise financière en Asie, l’Indonésie souffre depuis quelques années de nombreuses difficultés, allant des troubles sociaux, de l’instabilité politique, de la violence ethnique et confessionnelle à la diminution de l’accès aux services de santé et autres services publics.
Divers facteurs associés à la mortalité maternelle en Zambie
(Juin 2003) La difficulté d’accès aux centres de soins et la qualité médiocre des prestations de soins sont probablement deux des raisons pour lesquelles la Zambie connaît à l’heure actuelle une montée du niveau de la mortalité maternelle.
Maternal Mortality in Guatemala: A Preventable Tragedy
(2003) From instituting new maternal health policies to addressing the quality of health services for pregnant women and their newborns, Guatemala is taking a number of steps to try to reduce deaths and disability related to pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum complications.
Diverse Factors Linked to Maternal Deaths in Zambia
By asoares
(2003) Poor access to health facilities and low-quality health care delivery may be among the reasons that Zambia is facing increasing levels of maternal deaths.
Population Bulletin, vol. 58, no. 1. The Graying of Latin America
(March 2003) Latin Americans born in the 1960s era of soaring population growth will begin to pass into their 60s by 2020, signaling a surge in the retirement-age population that will last for several decades.