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The Population Council’s publications and resources include two peer-reviewed journals, books, working papers, newsletters, reports, slide shows, and toolkits. Researchers, students, policymakers, and colleagues in international development rely on the research and lessons provided in our wide range of documents. Publications and resources also are cross-referenced throughout our Web site by research topic and location. We invite you to browse our many titles, order print publications using our online form, or search our database. Contact us at publications@popcouncil.org with any questions.

Selected resources

  New Lessons: The Power of Educating Adolescent Girls, recently published by the Population Council, demonstrates that education for girls during adolescence can be transformative.
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  "Trade liberalization, interindustry wage differentials and job quality in Egyptian manufacturing" is the most recent working paper from the Gender and Work in the MENA Region: Poverty, Job Quality and Labor Market Dynamics series.

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  Population Briefs, the Population Council's research newsletter, is published three times a year. Findings summarized in the newsletter are drawn from peer-reviewed, published research. The current issue features stories on child marriage, research tools, urban poverty and health, sexual and gender-based violence, and maternal and newborn health.

 

 

What's New

New statistics project more than five million fewer deaths from AIDS in 2030 than previously estimated. The Population Council's John Bongaarts and co-authors François Pelletier and Patrick Gerland address the cause and implications of the revised estimate in a recent article in The Lancet, "How many more AIDS deaths?" (more)

Antares Pharma and the Population Council announce positive results from the Phase 2 trial of a contraceptive gel containing Nestorone®. (more)

The Population Council applauds the US government’s renewed support and dedication to meeting the health and development goals laid out in the ICPD and other related UN agreements. (more)

BMJ has announced the nominees for its prestigious annual award for "Getting Research into Practice." The Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Practice (SHHEP) group—to which ABBA, a Population Council–led consortium, belongs—was nominated for successfully "advocating research findings to change the law in Ghana so that survivors of gender based and sexual violence are no longer forced to pay for their own medical tests to prove assault in court." Read more about this on page 6 of the linked PDF. (offsite link)

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