Project: Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)
Damming the Ecosystems of Amazonia
This innovation brief describes the growing impact of hydroelectric dams on the Amazon River ecosystem in Brazil.
Project: Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)
This innovation brief describes the growing impact of hydroelectric dams on the Amazon River ecosystem in Brazil.
(2002) It is difficult to compare poverty levels in different countries. Countries not only have different currencies, they have different family income levels, consumption patterns, prices for goods and services (which affect purchasing power), spending patterns, and family and demographic characteristics.
(2009) The financial decisions facing older adults as they reach retirement age are increasingly more difficult.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
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.
(2011) For more than 20 years, since the first data collection in Sudan in 1989, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) team at Macro International has been tracking the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation and female circumcision.
(2014) Ukraine, a former republic of the Soviet Union, has undergone a series of dramatic demographic changes since its independence in 1991. Most significant, its birth rate declined sharply following independence, mirroring similar developments in other former Soviet republics.
Drones might seem to be a natural solution to maintaining a more even contraceptive supply in hard-to-reach areas, but family planning supplies aren’t yet the ideal cargo.
Policy changes could reduce the disproportionate burden of care work on American women, researchers said.