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Report. Women’s Need for Family Planning in Arab Countries

Family planning is critical for the health of women and their families, and it can accelerate a country's progress toward reducing poverty and achieving development goals. Because of its importance, universal access to reproductive health services, including family planning, is identified as one of the targets of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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Birth Rate Trends in Low-Fertility Countries

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The BRIC Countries

(2012) For some time now, Brazil, Russia, India, and China have been grouped together under the acronym BRIC. The BRICs are described as countries at the same stage of economic development, but not yet at the point where they would be considered more developed countries. The BRIC position argues that, since the four countries are "developing rapidly," their combined economies could eclipse the collective economies of the current richest countries of the world by 2050.

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Repeats and Rhymes: Lessons From 100 Years of U.S. Immigration Policy

Attempts at immigration reform should address issues that have been with us, in various guises, for at least a century.

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The Status of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa

(2002) Despite the fact that sub-Saharan Africa contains only about 11 percent of the Earth's population, the region is the world's epicenter of HIV/AIDS.

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Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act

Family Planning Improves the Economic Well-Being of Families and Communities

Family planning is widely recognized as one of the most cost-effective health interventions.

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What Can Be Done to Protect the Chimpanzees and Other Great Apes of Africa?

(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.

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The United States at 300 Million

HOW WE HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE UNITED STATES WAS A NATION OF 200 MILLION (September 2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. It will become the third country—after China and India—to be home to at least 300 million people.

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