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.
Resource Type: Past Presentation
PRB Discuss Online: Does a Young Age Structure Thwart Democratic Governments?
(November 2009) Does a large proportion of young adults in a country’s adult population make it difficult for that country to gain or retain high levels of democracy?
PRB Discuss Online: World Population, 7 Billion on the Horizon
(September 2009) On Aug. 12, 2009, PRB released the 2009 World Population Data Sheet at a press briefing in Washington, D.
PRB Discuss Online: How Will Global Aging Affect Economic Development?
(June 2009) The number of people over age 60 is expected to reach 1 billion by 2020 and almost 2 billion by 2050, representing 22 percent of the world’s population.
Health Effect of Marriage and Other Social Relationships
(June 2009) Social relationships keep older people healthy, and the marriage relationship is especially beneficial.
Africa’s Future: Improving the Health of Mothers and Children
(2009) Every year, 265,000 mothers die in childbirth and 4.5 million children die before the age of 5 from preventable causes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Climate Change and Urban Adaptation: Managing Unavoidable Health Risks in Developing Countries
(2009) On May 14, demographic and environmental experts discussed the health effects of climate change on the world’s growing urban population at the symposium “Climate Change and Urban Adaptation: Managing Unavoidable Health Risks in Developing Countries.
Climate Change and Urban Adaptation in Developing Countries
2009) The world is facing inevitable effects of climate change at the same time that the population is increasingly concentrated in urban areas.
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.
The Effect of Smoking on Trends in U.S Mortality
(April 2009) Samuel Preston is the Fredrick J. Warren professor of demography, Population Aging Research Center, at the University of Pennsylvania.