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Report. Empowering Women, Developing Society: Female Education in the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic)

(2003) Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development.

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Domestic Violence High in Egypt, Affecting Women’s Reproductive Health

(2010) Violence against women is a costly and pervasive public health problem and a violation of human rights. In Egypt, a third of women are physically abused by their husbands, according to the 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).

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Rapid Population Growth, Crowded Cities Present Challenges in the Philippines

(2003) Fast-paced population growth and rampant urbanization represent some of the major population concerns in the Philippines, a country of 80 million people where the average number of children born to a woman is close to four and where a sizeable 37 percent of the population is under age 15.

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Project: Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Report. Reflections From Five Years of Research on FGM/C

From 2015 to 2019, the African-led consortium developed innovative research methods and uncovered new evidence about the practice and how it is changing—focusing on families and communities, and health and legal systems—in eight countries: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan.

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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

Wallchart. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Data and Trends, Update 2017 (Arabic)

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2017, produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides the latest data on the practice in 29 developing countries with representative and comparable data—although FGM/C occurs worldwide.

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Project: Population and Poverty (PopPov) Research Network

Research Brief. The Effects of an Economic Crisis on Contraceptive Use

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In Memory of Bill Butz and Carl Haub

Current and former PRB staff members share their tributes to two PRB greats

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2012 World Population Data Sheet

Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.

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Vaccination During Pregnancy May Reduce Whooping Cough in Infants

New study finds drop in infant cases after experts promote vaccination for pregnant women

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World Population Highlights: Key Findings From PRB’s 2007 World Population Data Sheet

2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.

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