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  • The U.S. Asia-Pacific Rebalance, National Security, and Climate Change (Report Launch)

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    From the Wilson Center  //  December 8, 2015  //  By Schuyler Null & Deepshri Mathur
    Pacific Fleet Papua New Guinea

    In the hierarchy of global and national security challenges, climate change comes out near the top, said a panel of distinguished defense, diplomacy, and intelligence leaders at the Wilson Center on November 17. [Video Below]

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  • A River Runs Again: Reporting on India’s Natural Crisis

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 17, 2015  //  By Deepshri Mathur
    Broken Landscape River

    The world’s second most populous country – projected to be first by 2022 – is developing faster than ever before, roiling the social, political, and environmental landscape. [Video Below]

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  • Finding the Path: Increasing Contraceptive Choice in Africa’s Most Populous Countries

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 2, 2015  //  By Deepshri Mathur
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    More than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid or delay pregnancy but are not using safe, modern, and effective contraceptive methods. Such a gap between women’s contraceptive behavior and reproductive goals is called an unmet need for family planning, and no region has more unmet need than sub-Saharan Africa. [Video Below]

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  • The “Gender-Equity Dividend,” and the Education Effect on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

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    Reading Radar  //  October 27, 2015  //  By Deepshri Mathur

    Untitled-1By comparing “first wave” developing countries, like Sweden and the United States, to “second wave” developers, like South Korea and Japan, Thomas Anderson and Hans-Peter Kohler of the University of Pennsylvania seek to explain why countries that underwent socioeconomic development in the first half of the 20th century have slightly higher fertility levels than those that developed later. Despite “both sets of countries attaining high income and generally low fertility, contemporary gender norms and levels of gender equity differ between them,” write Anderson and Kohler in a new study in Population and Development Review.

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  • Food Security Goals Linked to Expanding Access to Family Planning, Says PRB Report

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    Eye On  //  October 7, 2015  //  By Deepshri Mathur

    Food security and proper nutrition are essential elements for the good health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. Proper nutrition increases productivity and subsequently helps lift families out of poverty. However, an estimated 800 million people are chronically malnourished across the world. Globally, more than 3 million children die each year due to illnesses caused by malnutrition.

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