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Dividend or Divide? Africa’s Demographic Challenge
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“Sub-Saharan Africa’s young people are in effect the global labor force of the future,” said Jack Goldstone at the Wilson Center on October 15. “Whether they are productive, how large that cohort turns out to be, whether they find work or not, is going to have a bearing, I think, on all of us.” [Video Below]
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Tripp Shealy and Elke U. Weber, The Daily Climate
Built-In Climate Solutions: Adjusting Defaults to Encourage More Efficient Design
›November 14, 2014 // By Wilson Center Staff
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for “urgent, daring action” to help deliver on his pledge to reduce New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The Mayor asked us all to think about “the reckless way in which we live.”
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Integrated Development Programs Work to Expand Conservation and Health Efforts in Uganda and Madagascar
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As is becoming clear, climate change, environmental degradation, population, and poverty alleviation are inextricably linked in many parts of the world. [Video Below]
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Jill Schwartz, World Wildlife Fund
In Nepal, Community Health Workers Take on Conservation Too
›November 12, 2014 // By Wilson Center Staff
At high noon, Devi KC is still deep in the daily chores she started at sunrise: brewing tea and cooking a meal of rice, lentils and spinach for her husband and teenage son; pumping and hauling water from the nearby well; harvesting hay from her field; and sweeping road dirt from her front porch.
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Earth Pushes Back: Era of Indifference Greets Droughts, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis
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There’s nothing demur about Mother Earth these days. She’s fuming and pushing back hard. Very hard.
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A New Population Paradigm? Wolfgang Lutz on the “Education Effect”
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If you want to understand global population dynamics, you have to look past quantity and look at quality, says Wolfgang Lutz, founding director of the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital, in this week’s podcast.
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A Reset for International Development? UN Debates What to Include in Sustainable Development Goals
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The 69th UN General Assembly was “an absolutely extraordinary opportunity” to rethink global development, said Genevieve Maricle, a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC) who participated in the summit. [Video Below]
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Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic
Amid Terror Attacks, Iraq Faces Water Crisis
›November 5, 2014 // By Wilson Center Staff
Viewed from afar, the two-mile-long Mosul Dam is an impressive sight on the flat, sunbaked northern plains.
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