Population Council Research that makes a difference

The Council is undertaking this project (formally titled "Inducting the Evidence on Population and Poverty Linkages into Public Policy, Drawing in Medical Professionals into Reproductive Health, and Analysis of Sex Ratios at Birth") to lay a foundation of evidence linking population and poverty. The aim of the project is to produce and collate evidence, which will initiate discussion and eventually lead to a dialogue at the highest level of the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and the National Population Commission to promote population issues and ensure their funding.

Another important component of the project is the induction of reproductive health modules into the teaching programs of all five years of medical studies. Under this project, the Council is also investigating the issue of sex-selective abortion, primarily through analysis of sex ratios at birth.