PRB hosted a high-level webinar with budget experts, parliamentarians, and national directors to discuss the importance of the Demographic Dividend Sensitive Budgeting approach in enhancing budgeting processes across Africa.
Project: KIDS COUNT
(2019) Since 1990, the child population has become more racially and ethnically diverse and the share of children with at least one immigrant parent has more than doubled.
World population has surpassed 7 billion, and we are in the midst of history's most rapid population expansion.
(2015) Up to half of all premature (or early) deaths in the United States are due to behavioral and other preventable factors—including modifiable habits such as tobacco use, poor diet, and lack of exercise, according to studies reviewed in a new National Research Council and Institute of Medicine report.1
(2013) The 2012 London Summit on Family Planning brought renewed attention to the cause of providing women with options for managing their fertility—enabling them to have the number of children they want when they want them and spaced at healthy intervals. In that conference, countries and donor agencies expressed their commitment to increase funding for family planning programs to ensure that reliable contraceptive supplies are available and affordable to all women who express a desire to postpone or avoid childbearing.
(2005) A new study on early childhood educational achievement says that young rural children begin elementary school well behind their urban and suburban peers in reading and math skills.
(2008) Higher education in the United States is increasingly out of reach for many young adults. Over the past decade, tuition costs at public four-year institutions have risen by 4.2 percent per year after inflation.