The World’s Next ‘Population Problem’
(2005) Ask about "the population problem" to people of a certain age, and the first and perhaps only thing that comes to mind is the "population bomb" or "population explosion."
(2005) Ask about "the population problem" to people of a certain age, and the first and perhaps only thing that comes to mind is the "population bomb" or "population explosion."
At the time of the April 1, 1999 Census, the population of Vietnam stood at just over 76 million, making it the 13th largest country in the world. From 1979 to 1999, nearly 24 million people were added to the country's population.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
In Burkina Faso’s Sahel Region, girls are more likely to drop out of primary and lower secondary school than girls nationally.
(2000) Gregory Goodwin "Goody" Pincus was Dr. Pincus because of his Harvard Ph.D. in biology, not because of a medical degree. Yet his work may have been the most important medical advance of the century for improving women's health and status. If any one person merits recognition as the father of the birth control pill, it was Goody Pincus.
In this Jason Bremner, associate vice president of International Programs at PRB, and Lori M. Hunter, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, discussed the relationship between migration and the environment and highlighted innovative research taking place at population research centers.