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  • Jagdish Upadhyay: Don’t Wait for the Demographic Dividend, Seize It

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 5, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    jagdish-small“The demographic dividend is about inclusive growth, not just economic growth,” says Jagdish Upadhyay, chief of commodity security at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast. “If it’s not inclusive, achieving the demographic dividend will be difficult.”

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  • Zika Virus Prompts El Salvador and Others to Discourage Pregnancy – What Are the Potential Consequences?

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 29, 2016  //  By Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
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    The government of El Salvador took a truly extraordinary step in an attempt to control the rapidly spreading Zika virus last week by asking its citizens to avoid getting pregnant from now until 2018. Yes, you read that right.

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  • Kate Gilmore on Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the “Toughest of Times, in the Hardest of Places”

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 29, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    gilmore-small“Right now, 1.5 billion people are living in humanitarian crisis – living in conflict-afflicted regions,” says Kate Gilmore, deputy executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast.

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  • Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda on Elevating Young Female Leaders By Giving Them Space

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    Friday Podcasts  //  January 22, 2016  //  By Sean Peoples

    Gumbonzvanda-small“The demographic data is telling us that the future is very young and the future is very female,” says Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a lawyer and general secretary of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA), in this week’s podcast. “And therefore, we actually have an imperative to respond.”

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  • Venezuela’s Turn? Age Structure and Liberal Democracy in South America

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    January 21, 2016  //  By Richard Cincotta
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    Venezuela seems suspended at a critical juncture. Following national elections in December, the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable was set to occupy two thirds of the 167-seat National Assembly, an upset that would reduce the late Hugo Chávez’s United Socialist Party to a distant second place for the first time and given opposition legislators the power to enact sweeping political changes.

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  • The Outcast Majority: War, Development, and Youth in Africa (Book Preview)

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 12, 2016  //  By Marc Sommers
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    The Outcast Majority: War, Development, and Youth in Africa is born of a growing sense that the status quo won’t work, in Africa or elsewhere. Enormous youth cohorts, containing many who feel socially sidelined, call for a response that, at best, is sporadically seen.

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  • Empower, Educate, and Employ Youth to Realize the Demographic Dividend

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 8, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In the course of development, most countries undergo a demographic transition. Health conditions improve and mortality rates decline, causing rapid population growth and a relatively high proportion of young people. Over time, if fertility declines, as it has in most places, growth slows and there is a period when the proportion of very young “dependents” shrinks in comparison to the working age population. This moment represents an opportunity for a “demographic dividend” – an economic boom as a comparatively large cohort of the total population moves through their most economically productive years. [Video Below]

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  • In Fight to Stop the Spread of Female Genital Mutilation, Midwives Are Crucial

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 23, 2015  //  By Francesca Cameron
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    Aissata M.B. Camara grew up in an educated, upper income household in Guinea, West Africa. One morning, she woke up to singing outside her window and knew they were coming. Many in her community thought that she was unclean and would grow up to be promiscuous if she wasn’t cut. She would be unmarriageable. While her family and community members held her down, she realized, “my body no longer belonged to me.” [Video Below]

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