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What's your method? A new post on the Gates Foundation's Impatient Optimists by the Council's John Townsend makes the case for vaginal rings.
Don't fear a birth dearth; improve public policies to help parents and children, says noted economist Nancy Folbre in a NYT Economix blog post based on her article from Population and Public Policy, a new Population and Development Review supplement.
Application deadline: 1 March 2013: The Council jointly coordinates the 2013 Research Methods Course in Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV, and Gender-based Violence, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12–28 August 2013.
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Population and Development Review: December 2012
Population and Development Review supplement: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny
Studies in Family Planning: December 2012
Population Briefs: September 2012
Momentum: November 2012
Why I give: Read former Council fellow Te-Hsiung Sun's reasons for supporting the Population Council
Article: Peak farmland and the prospect for land sparing (from the new supplement to Population and Development Review)
Book: Family Planning Programs for the 21st Century: Rationale and Design
Meeting report: The Africa Regional Sexual and Gender-based Violence Network Annual Partners Meeting, June 26-27 2012, Mombasa, Kenya
