PRB Discuss Online: How Family Planning Can Save More Lives
(June 2009) Family planning saves the lives of millions of women and infants every year in developing countries. But it could save many more.
Region: South Asia
PRB Discuss Online: Are Some U.S. Generations Luckier Than Others?
(2009) Unique events, political climates, and social and economic conditions shape each new generation in every society.
Children in U.S. Immigrant Families Chart New Path
(2009) A new PRB report, Children in Immigrant Families Chart New Path, looks at the U.S.
Rising U.S. Teen Fertility
(2009) The United States has higher fertility rates among teenage girls compared with other developed countries of the world.
Sex Ratio at Birth Deteriorating Among Asian Immigrants in the United States
(2008) A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports on a sex ratio that favors boys among U.S.-born children in Indian, Korean, and Chinese families.
Examining Literacy Using India’s Census
(2008) The percentage of adults who are literate is a frequently used measure of development in less developed countries, a benchmark to evaluate just how far a country’s society and economy is moving into the modern world.
Offshoring U.S. Labor Increasing
Offshoring is the movement of jobs and tasks from one country to another, usually from high-cost countries, such as the United States, to low-cost countries where wages are significantly lower.
HIV/AIDS Behaviors and Interventions in Chinese Americans
(2008) The prevalence of HIV/AIDS increased faster among Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States than in any other group between 2001 and 2004.1
PRB Discuss Online: Environmental Change, What Are the Links With Migration?
2008) Close to 200 million people are living outside their country of birth. Increasing numbers are refugees fleeing their homeland for another country.
Family Planning Challenges and Decentralization of Health Services in Latin America
(June 2008) In recent decades, several countries throughout Latin America have undergone health sector reform in efforts to improve the quality of care and the level of coverage.