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  • 50 Years of Family Planning at USAID: Successes, Political Challenges, and Future Directions

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 10, 2015  //  By Josh Feng
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    Since President Lyndon B. Johnson created the USAID population program in 1965, it has evolved in tandem with the global discourse on population and demography. “The agency’s family planning program is as relevant today as it ever was, and is necessary,” said Jennifer Adams, deputy assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency of International Development’s Bureau for Global Health. The bureau houses the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, which implements U.S. development and relief efforts to expand access to modern contraceptives, fight HIV/AIDS, reduce unsafe abortions, and protect the health of women and children. [Video Below]

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  • A Nuclear Deal Could Help Iran Harness a Youthful Labor Force

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 7, 2015  //  By Farzaneh Roudi
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    The original version of this article appeared as part of the Middle East Program’s “Viewpoints” series.

    Iran is poised to reap a vast “demographic dividend” if the appropriate national and international policies are adopted, including a nuclear deal with the P5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany).

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  • Blockade of Yemeni Ports Has Unintended Consequences on Food Security, Somali Fishing Industry

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 23, 2015  //  By Sarah Glaser
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    Hundreds of Yemenis have been killed since Houthi rebels overthrew President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi at the beginning of April. The instability next door has led Saudi Arabia to intervene with a bombing campaign and, most recently, impose a blockade of Yemen’s port cities to cut off what they claim is Iranian resupply of rebels. Besides blocking weapons though, the blockade is also having a major impact on food security and food assistance, and is even affecting livelihoods in Somalia.

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  • The Future of Political Demography and Its Impact on Policy

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    March 9, 2015  //  By Schuyler Null
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    “Political demography is a discipline whose time has come,” said Rob Odell of the National Intelligence Council at a gathering of demographers and researchers in New Orleans. “You can sense this inherent dissatisfaction” with a lot of analytical and predictive tools in international relations, he said, and “political demography provides policymakers a way to think about long-term trends.”

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  • Reporting on the Spaces Between: How to Cover Climate, Population, and Health Connections

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 13, 2015  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In his 2007 best-seller, The World Without Us, Alan Weisman explored what would happen to the planet if the human race suddenly vanished – the gradual deterioration of the built environment, the geologic fossilization of our everyday stuff, and the ecological processes that would rebound and thrive without continual and growing human pressure. [Video Below]

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  • The Missing Link in Understanding Global Trends? Demography

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 11, 2014  //  By Monica Duffy Toft
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    Since the end of World War II, a number of the world’s most dramatic political events have resulted from demographic shifts and governments’ reaction to them. Despite this, political demography remains a neglected topic of scholarly investigation.

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  • What Can Governments Do About Falling Birth Rates?

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 2, 2014  //  By Paris Achenbach & Moses Jackson
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    “We have a fairly unique moment in the history of the world,” said Steven Philip Kramer, a professor at National Defense University, at the Wilson Center on April 17. “There’s never been a time when people have voluntarily produced fewer children than is necessary for sustaining the population.” [Video Below]

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  • Our Last Best Hope? Family Planning and Women’s Empowerment

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    January 7, 2014  //  By Laurie Mazur

    The original version of this article appeared on the Aspen Institute blog.

    When journalist Alan Weisman proposed a new book on the challenges posed by human population growth, his editor said, “That one’s a live wire; don’t touch it.”

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