Promotion of family planning in countries with high birth rates has the potential to reduce
poverty and hunger and avert 32% of all maternal deaths and nearly 10% of childhood …

Despite the call for universal access to reproductive health at the 4th International
Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994, sexual and reproductive …

The objective of this study was to identify the major socio-demographic, health, and
environmental determinants of stunting among children aged 0–59 months from the Tete …

Economists, demographers and other social scientists have long debated the relationship
between demographic change and economic outcomes. In recent years, general agreement …

Over recent decades, women in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased their labor
force participation faster than in any other region of the world. This evolution occurred in the …

There is a large amount of research into maternal health as a health issue, but maternal
health as a development issue has been less explored. This Review analyses the evidence …

Background Adolescent pregnancy has significant health and socio-economic
consequences for women, their families and communities. Efforts to prevent too-early …

This article reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning
programs in middle-and low-income countries. It focuses on fertility outcomes (the number …

Background and methodology Early marriage, women's poor reproductive health and child
well-being are important areas of concern, especially in developing countries like India …

Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012! Winner of the 2011
Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why, despite …