ENGAGE Snapshot: Reducing Adolescent Childbearing: Ghana’s Success Story

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot explores the association between the adolescent fertility rate and the gross national income (GNI) per capita in Ghana. In addition, it examines how adolescent fertility rates vary by income level.

When it comes to education beyond high school in the United States, fewer males than females, fewer young people from low-income than high-income families, and a smaller share of blacks and Hispanics than whites and Asians tend to enroll and earn degrees.

Using Trendalyzer, this PRB ENGAGE Snapshot examines how fertility and income have changed in Bangladesh, and highlights the role of family planning. Now online: new infographic.

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot summarizes how secondary education affects some key health and family outcomes, particularly highlighting increases in the use of family planning.

(January 2013) The 7th Annual PopPov Conference was held in Oslo, Norway, in January 2013. In this video, participants shared their reflections on the conference, the importance of the PopPov Network and its research, and how to connect research findings to policy.

This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot outlines the simple pathways through which family planning can help to break the cycle of poverty for families and nations.

The number of low-income working families rose from 10.2 million in 2010 to 10.4 million in 2011, representing nearly one-third of all working families.

Many countries in Asia and Latin America have experienced impressive economic growth over the last two decades, and these gains are due in part to demographic changes that have facilitated growth the "demographic dividend."

Most of the money migrant workers send home to sub-Saharan Africa is spent on education, health care, buying land, building houses, starting business or improving farms, according to recent surveys.

In the United States, the recent economic recession, the steady decline in men's real earnings, the growth in single-mother families, and the increase in women's educational levels are some of the factors likely contributing to the growth in the proportion of mothers of young children in the workfor…

Currently, young Egyptians receive little accurate information about sexuality and protecting their health. This policy brief describes the current state of SRH education in schools in Egypt and presents the rationale and recommendations for improvements.

This PopPov network research brief highlights findings from a recent study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Ghana, Legon that examined the associations between reproductive health, fertility, and economic outcomes for women living in the urban area of Accra, Gha…