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Population Reference Bureau

Type: Organization

Name: Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

Web Address: http://www.prb.org/

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Population Reference Bureau

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

World Bank Group

Sector estimated at $44.9b in GCC

(MENAFN - Arab Times) 4 million students enrol every year in basic education in region. A report issued by KFH-Research noted that the ... [Published MENAFN - May 18 2013]

Entities: Education, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Population Reference Bureau, World Bank Group

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

GBCHealth Conference includes reproductive health

Access to reproductive health services and the ability of women to plan the timing and number of their pregnancies is increasingly being recognized as a key not only to the health of women, families and communities, but to the prosperity of nations.The ... [Published TrustLaw - May 17 2013]

Entities: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, CERVICAL CANCER, Contraceptive

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Coming soon: Europe's biggest economy will be U.K.

Today 6:41 AM ET (MarketWatch)PrintLONDON (MarketWatch) -- Way back in 1987, the Italian government had a rare moment of economic success to celebrate. The Italian economy had overtaken Britain's in total size. It was known in Italy as Il Surpasso, and ... [Published TD Ameritrade - May 15 2013]

Entities: United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Gross Domestic Product

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Save the Children

Tanzania not among best places to be a mother

Ranks 135 in new State of the World's Mothers ReportA mother with her child. (File photo)Most of us know someone who lost their life giving birth, or who died from pregnancy-related complications.A friend of mine lost his wife last year while giving birth ... [Published IPP Media - May 09 2013]

Entities: Tanzania, Save the Children, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Population Reference Bureau

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Woodrow Wilson International Center

Trini takes up senior position at Woodrow Wilson Center

Trinidadian Roger-Mark Valdez De Souza has been named director of population, environmental change, and security at The Woodrow Wilson Center, an affiliate of the well known Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. A noted population-environment expert, ... [Published Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - May 09 2013]

Entities: Woodrow Wilson International Center, Environment, Population Action International

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Family size is a food security matter

No one should take lightly what was published in the media (New Vision, April 26, 2013) that the government wants to limit the number of children produced by any woman to a maximum of four. The country has had the unenviable annual population growth rate ... [Published Uganda Daily Monitor - May 08 2013]

Entities: Food Security, Agriculture, Population Reference Bureau, Mayotte

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Robert Walker: Jeremy Grantham Has Bad News and Good News

Jeremy Grantham, the famed investor and co-founder of GMO, one of the world's most successful investments firms, has both bad news and good news for us. The bad news, briefly stated, is that we are on the road to economic and ecological ruin. Grantham's ... [Published Huffington Post - May 07 2013]

Entities: Jeremy Grantham, Robert Walker, Fertility

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Cursives, I'm foiled again by progress

My handwriting resembles tracks left by an inebriated chicken lurching across the yard, stopping randomly to retch.To describe my scratch marks as indecipherable would be an act of kindness.Judging from my cursive abilities alone, a wag once observed ... [Published Medford Mail Tribune - May 05 2013]

Entities: Generation Z, Baby Boomer, Oregon Department of Human Services, Population Reference Bureau

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Six Billion, or Fifteen Billion People

A Discussion With Environmental Scientist Leon KolankiewiczLeon Kolankiewicz at New Mexico’s Rio Grande Bosque © Kathy KolankiewiczLeon Kolankiewicz is an environmental scientist, wildlife ecologist, and natural resources planner whose career spans almost ... [Published Peak Oil - May 05 2013]

Entities: Michael Tobias, Immigration, Population Reference Bureau, Environment, Abortion

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Six Billion, or Fifteen Billion People? A Discussion With Environmental Scientist Leon Kolankiewicz

Leon Kolankiewicz at New Mexico's Rio Grande Bosque Â© Kathy Kolankiewicz Leon Kolankiewicz is an environmental scientist, wildlife ecologist, and natural resources planner whose career spans almost 30 years, multiple states, and three countries, having ... [Published Forbes.com - May 03 2013]

Entities: Population Reference Bureau, Environment, United States Fish and Wildlife Service

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Special News Analysis: Development Through ImmunizationMatters Arising

Ghana has made moderate gains in the fight against preventable diseases affecting children. Through the country's Expanded Program on Immunization, children and pregnant women are vaccinated against eleven diseases including diphtheria, neonatal tetanus ... [Published Modern Ghana - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Ghana, Gribble, Vaccine

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Be Fruitful And Multiply: Iran’s Program To Increase Its Population Might Not Work

The Iranian government, already burdened by western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, is again encouraging young couples in the country to have more children in order to cope with the kind of aging demographics that currently plague western ... [Published International Business Times UK - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Iran, Population Reference Bureau, Mohammad Ismail, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Education

Quotes

..." He worries that we are not prepared for the looming post-carbon economy. He hopes, however, that "the technologies of solar windwind power, and other alternatives as well as electric grid efficiencies and improved energy storage" will come to our rescue in time to avoid climate disaster and economic collapse...

Robert Walker: Jeremy Grantham Has Bad News and Good News [Published Huffington Post - May 07 2013]

"From my perspective, they should pick up the phone right away," she added. "From their perspective, they would prefer that I text them when they are in the middle of a college class or whatever."

Cursives, I'm foiled again by progress [Published Medford Mail Tribune - May 05 2013]

...As Madeline Zavodny argues, "The direct fiscal impact of the foreign born in a single year is only a small piece of understanding their economic costs and benefits." You also need to take into account immigration's effect on economic growth, which could result in more tax revenue...

5 Reasons Media Should Be Wary Of Heritage Foundation's New Immigration Report [Published Media Matters for America - May 03 2013]

More Content

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Sector estimated at $44.9b in GCC [Published MENAFN - May 18 2013]
GBCHealth Conference includes reproductive health [Published TrustLaw - May 17 2013]
Coming soon: Europe's biggest economy will be U.K. [Published TD Ameritrade - May 15 2013]
Tanzania not among best places to be a mother [Published IPP Media - May 09 2013]
Trini takes up senior position at Woodrow Wilso... [Published Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - May 09 2013]
Family size is a food security matter [Published Uganda Daily Monitor - May 08 2013]
Robert Walker: Jeremy Grantham Has Bad News and... [Published Huffington Post - May 07 2013]
How Generation X is Shaping Government [Published Government Technology US - May 06 2013]
Cursives, I'm foiled again by progress [Published Medford Mail Tribune - May 05 2013]
Six Billion, or Fifteen Billion People [Published Peak Oil - May 05 2013]
Six Billion, or Fifteen Billion People? A Discu... [Published Forbes.com - May 03 2013]
5 Reasons Media Should Be Wary Of Heritage Foun... [Published Media Matters for America - May 03 2013]
Uganda Achieving Middle Income Status By 2040 I... [Published Individual.com - Apr 24 2013]
Special News Analysis: Development Through Immu... [Published Modern Ghana - Apr 23 2013]
Be Fruitful And Multiply: Iran’s Program To Inc... [Published International Business Times UK - Apr 22 2013]
Controlling population, shaping the future [Published Jakarta Post - Apr 20 2013]
Japan leads the world in population collapse [Published LifeSite - Apr 19 2013]
Unmarried with children: cohabitation a new norm [Published Florida Realtor - Apr 17 2013]
Abt Hires Gribble to Lead Health Evaluation Arm [Published MrWeb - Apr 17 2013]
International Monitoring and Evaluation Expert ... [Published Citybizlist - Apr 15 2013]
How Are the Five Pillars of Islam Used Today? [Published Opposing Views - Apr 15 2013]
Evolving family will adapt well [Published Home News Tribune - Apr 14 2013]
Tips On Writing About Demographics [Published Global Voices Online - Mar 08 2013]
How Are African Youth Doing? Interactive Map He... [Published blogs.worldbank.org - Feb 21 2013]
Did Millions Die in the Great Leap Forward: A Q... [Published Hidden Harmonies China Blog - Feb 09 2013]
Facebook may be the largest “country” on earth ... [Published Royal Pingdom - Feb 05 2013]
Beware Upcoming Revisions; Show Me The Data. [Published The Big Picture Blog - Jan 08 2013]
The deaths of 2012. [Published Althouse - Dec 29 2012]
Must-Reads from Around the World [Published The China Blog - Dec 21 2012]
Must-Reads from Around the World [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - Dec 21 2012]

Blogs

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Tips On Writing About Demographics [Published Global Voices Online - Mar 08 2013] How many people? Demographics Revealed , a new blog of the Population Reference Bureau and the Population Association of America offers advice on how to write about demographics. Written by Solana Larsen · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook ...
How Are African Youth Doing? Interactive Map He... [Published blogs.worldbank.org - Feb 21 2013] What can be done to help African youth improve their prospects for a brighter future? The first step might be to understand the challenges they face.Recently, Microsoft Chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates wrote a terrific piece in the Wall Street ...
Did Millions Die in the Great Leap Forward: A Q... [Published Hidden Harmonies China Blog - Feb 09 2013] This is a followup on a previous post titled Did Millions Die in the Great Leap Forward: A Quick Note on the Underlying Statistics . In that post, I tried to point out that the only systematic data available from the time (the census of 1953 and 1964) ...
Facebook may be the largest “country” on earth ... [Published Royal Pingdom - Feb 05 2013] Facebook overtook _kmq.push(["trackClickOnOutboundLink","link_51111ae4873c0","Article link clicked",{"Title":"overtook","Page":"Facebook may be the largest \u201ccountry\u201d on earth by 2016"}]); the United States as the third largest “country” three ...
Beware Upcoming Revisions; Show Me The Data. [Published The Big Picture Blog - Jan 08 2013] @TBPInvictus Eleven months ago, when the BLS printed the monthly jobs numbers for January 2012, a tremendous disservice was done to consumers of economic information on the internet. Whether it was done deliberately or out of ignorance, I cannot say. ...