This article is a summary of a longer article by Monica Das Gupta, "Population, Poverty, and Climate Change," World Bank Research Observer 29, no. 1 (2014): 83-108. All citations are included there.
(2008) Chronic malnutrition has been a persistent problem for young children in sub-Saharan Africa. A high percentage of these children fail to reach the normal international standard height for their age; that is, they are "stunted."
(2011) En l’absence de statistiques différenciées par sexe permettant de mesurer la situation des femmes et des hommes et leurs rôles dans la vie sociale, économique, sanitaire et politique, nous avons une capacité limitée d'évaluer les progrès accomplis vers la réalisation de l'égalité des genres ou la hiérarchisation des actions visant à résoudre les questions d’inégalités entre les sexes.
Federal revisions to race categories will give people better options for identifying themselves and provide data users with a more accurate picture of the U.S. population.
Each year about 1 million Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday. Malnutrition contributes to nearly half of these deaths. The multimedia presentation, Malnutrition: Nigeria’s Silent Crisis, presents the reasons why proper nutrition for women and children is so important, especially in the first 1,000 day period—from the start of a woman’s pregnancy until her child’s second birthday
By looking at the intersection of poverty and inequality in local areas—and how this has changed over time—we can produce a more complete picture of U.S. economic health.
(2015) In the United States, full-time working women earn less than men, on average—even in female-dominated occupations (those in which women comprise 70 percent or more of workers), such as nurse practitioners, office clerks, and flight attendants.