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.
(2012) Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), also referred to as chronic diseases, are the leading causes of death worldwide.
Self-care approaches can offer women more control over their lives.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
This publication extends two prior reviews—So What? (2004) and New Evidence (2009)—of evidence for gender-integrated interventions.
(2010) In many countries, the elderly now make up an unprecedented share of the population. This increase in the number of older people has implications for national budgets, labor force growth, and family support systems.
(2006) The "fertility transition"—the shift from large to small families that demographers have observed throughout much of the world—has been remarkably rapid in Morocco, according to a recently released demographic and health survey on that country.
Between 2014 and 2017, we created and disseminated country-specific analyses and materials in three countries: Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Senegal.