Check-in on World Toilet Day: Adding Toilets in India

Shortly after he was elected in 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to provide access to a toilet at every school and home in the country by 2019, the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi's birth.

This set of PopPov fact sheets present country and regional research.

Low-quality antenatal care may be contributing to Ghana s high maternal mortality rates, according to a recent study.

Maternal deaths can be prevented when women give birth in health facilities attended by skilled personnel.

Studies show that a growing number of U.S. families have incomes so low that the difficulties of their living situations may be masked by thinking of the poor as a homogeneous group.

This article by PRB's Farzaneh Roudi was published in the Wilson Center Middle East Program's Viewpoints series.

PRB's data sheet, the Urban-Rural Divide in Health and Development, looks at the gaps in key development indicators between urban and rural dwellers in many low- and middle-income countries.

The global problem of climate change poses the greatest threat to the least developed countries.

In 2013, U.S. working families headed by racial/ethnic minorities were twice as likely to be poor or low-income (47 percent) compared with non-Hispanic whites (23 percent) according to a new report from the Working Poor Families Project in collaboration with PRB.

(February 2015) The Population and Poverty Research Network has launched a redesigned website at www.poppov.org, and a new Twitter account @poppovnetwork! The redesigned and upgraded website features simple navigation, easy-to-read text, and more ways to search for content.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Population and Poverty Research Initiative, together with four European research councils, has sponsored research into how investments in women's and children's health contribute to economic development.

In this webinar, co-authors Mark Mather, associate vice president of U.S. Programs at PRB, and Beth Jarosz, research associate in U.S. Programs at PRB, presented findings from a new PRB Population Bulletin on “The Demography of Inequality in the United States.”