Women’s time spent performing unpaid care work provides the foundation for healthy market economies. However, economic measures of national income only account for paid work and do not account for time women spend performing unpaid care and household services.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Family planning (FP) budget allocations have increased but remain small share of health budget
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Dans de nombreux pays, les jeunes femmes de 15 à 24 ans affichent des taux d'abandon de la contraception plus élevés que leurs aînées.
Project: Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy to Expand Access to Safe Abortion (SAFE ENGAGE)
Research has shown that in Côte d’Ivoire and around the world, abortion occurs among women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds, married or unmarried, and with or without children.
(2014) Marissa Pine Yeakey, senior policy analyst at PRB, began this webinar with a brief overview of PRB's ENGAGE presentations, and then presented "Family Planning and Gender Equality: Partners in Development."
(2014) A convergence of demographic trends and disparities is contributing to a new economic reality for the U.S. population, characterized by higher levels of poverty and inequality.
(2011) Global population will reach 7 billion later in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999.