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2012 Aid Transparency Index
Publish What You Fund recently released its 2012 Aid Transparency Index, an annual review of 43 indicators assessing to what degree information about policies, strategies, and individual projects are...
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What Next? Finding Ways to Integrate Population and Reproductive Health Into...
The size, composition, and spatial distribution of human populations are constantly changing, and in some areas of the world, they’re changing very rapidly. Related trends in fertility and...
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Climate Change’s Health Impacts, and the Rights-Based Argument for Family...
UNFPA’s recently released State of World Population 2012 brings family planning to the center of the development debate. “There is indisputable evidence that when family planning is integrated into...
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Global Warming Experts Should Think More About the Cold War
The original version of this article, by Ruth Greenspan Bell, appeared on Bloomberg News. Every year the United Nations convenes diplomats from more than 190 nations to negotiate a climate change...
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Rio+20: Impacts and Ways Forward
After last spring’s UN Conference on Sustainable Development, popularly known as Rio+20, the Wilson Center’s Paulo Sotero said there was “a sense of frustration over the lack of new commitments from...
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Setting Development Goals for Population Dynamics and Reproductive Rights
“I’d like to start by stating emphatically that since addressing global inequality and inequity are our overall principles in revising the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals], we must focus on health...
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A Year for Cooperation, Not Conflict, Over Water
You might think that conflict over water is inevitable as rising temperatures and changing climates are expected to constrain supplies in the coming decades at the same time that expanding consumption...
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Aging in the 21st Century: A Celebration and a Challenge
“We are in the midst of a silent revolution,” said Ann Pawliczko, a senior technical advisor in the population and development branch at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), quoting former UN...
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New Water and Women’s Health Series by MHTF and WASH Advocates
The original version of this article, by Rebecca Fishman, appeared on the WASH Advocates and Maternal Health Task Force blogs. Access to clean water is not only one of the world’s most urgent health...
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International Women’s Day: Violence Pervasive, With Wide-ranging Effects
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is “a promise is a promise: time for action to end violence against women.” The theme reflects that although there are a number of treaties and...
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Jack Goldstone Discusses Future Demographic Trends: The Old, the Young, and...
In this podcast, Jack Goldstone of George Mason University discusses the world’s demographic stresses in the coming years. In parallel to a growing trend of population aging in developed countries,...
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Demographic Dividend and the Rise of the Global South
The Global South is “radically reshaping the world of the 21st century, with developing nations driving economic growth, lifting hundreds of millions of people from poverty, and propelling billions...
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Power Shift Under Way As Middle Class Expands In Developing World
The original version of this article, by Jason Beaubien, appeared on NPR’s health blog, Shots. “The meek shall inherit the earth” – that seems to be the latest message from the United Nations...
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World Water Day Focuses on Cooperation in the Face of Growing Stress
Cooperation, not conflict; that’s the theme of this year’s World Water Day. Collaboration over water has been the rule rather than the exception over the past 70 years, UNESCO explained in the launch...
View ArticleEnvironmental Security Goes Mainstream: Natural Resources and National Interests
The original version of this article, by Stewart M. Patrick, appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations’ The Internationalist blog. Not long ago, concerns about environmental degradation were...
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Band of Conflict: What Role Do Demographics, Climate Change, and Natural...
Stretching across northern Africa, the Sahel is a semi-arid region of more than a million square miles covering parts of nine countries. This band of territory is home to one of the world’s most...
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A Global Thirst for Water Security
The original version of this article, by Matthew Berger, appeared on The Interdependent. Last summer, after walking for days to a refugee camp across the South Sudan border, some Sudanese refugees...
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Can Women Deliver a New Development Agenda in 2015?
The disempowerment of women and girls is the single biggest driver of inequality today, said Helen Clark, administrator of the UN Development Program, during a plenary on the final day here at the...
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What Does “Urbanization” Really Mean?
The original version of this article, by Carl Haub, appeared on Demographics Revealed. Few terms in demography can cause more confusion than “urbanization.” News stories reporting projections of world...
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New UN Population Projections Released: Pockets of High Fertility Drive...
October 31, 2011, was notable not only for the annual ritual of candy and costumes, but also for its designation by the United Nations as the date when global population reached seven billion....
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