{"title":"Call to reverse decline in ODA.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 261","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22030067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World AIDS Day focuses on children.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 261","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22030639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of population on adolescents.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescents are often overlooked in the efforts of developing countries to reduce population growth rates by lowering fertility and to care for aging populations in those countries that have been successful in reducing fertility. The September issue of the Asia-Pacific Population Journal contains an article by Professor Gavin Jones of the Australian National University entitled \"Population Dynamics and Their Impact on Adolescents in the ESCAP Region,\" which overcomes that gap in information on the population aged 10-24. It examines aspects such as the growth of the adolescent population, age at marriage, educational developments, labor force participation, unemployment, and fertility among adolescents. The article concludes with an examination of the effects of demographic and educational changes, poverty, globalization, and urbanization on adolescents, drawing out a number of implications for policy purposes. Stating that most of today's adolescents will be still alive at mid-century, the article observes that \"this cohort will play a crucial role in national development in an increasingly interconnected and high-technology world. From this perspective, it is tragic to note that many of these adolescents will still lack access to secondary schools--and in some cases, even to primary schooling--and will suffer from avoidable health problems.\" It also points out that, because adolescents greatly outnumber the elderly, care should be taken to ensure that policies towards them are not neglected.</p>","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 261","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22030640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population growth to put pressure on some food supplies.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Continued high population growth in developing countries is likely to lead to intense pressure to produce more rice, according to estimates from the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Ms. Mercedita Sombilla, a research scientist with IRRI, said that the projected increase in Asia's population will be the major force in accelerating demand for rice. According to various issues of the ESCAP Population Data Sheet, the population of the region will have increased from 3.3 billion in 1995 to almost 4.6 billion in 2020. The greatest growth in demand is expected to come from the lower-income countries of Asia, such as Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Philippines, and Viet Nam, she said. However, in terms of overall food supplies, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that food supplies will be sufficient. \"Expecting reasonably strong productivity growth to be sustainable, no global food crisis seems likely to occur\" between now and 2020, the organization stated in its report entitled \"The World in 2020: Towards a New Global Age\".</p>","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 261","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22030642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESCAP holds expert group meeting on population issues facing adolescents.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 260","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22019779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Major conference on population at Beijing.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 260","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22019781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women's committee notes impact of fertility on status of females.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Experts in the 23-member Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recently noted the beneficial impact of declines in fertility rates on improving the status of women. The Committee, which is the monitoring body for the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, emphasized during one of the sessions of its July meeting that, when the fertility rate declined, girls stayed in school longer, infant mortality also declined, and the status of women improved in general. Mr. Sethuramiah Rao, Director of UNFPA's Technical and Evaluation Division, speaking on behalf of Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director, said that governments must be held accountable for protecting the reproductive and sexual rights of women. Consensus agreements reached at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women demonstrated that the world community now accepted that States were responsible for respecting and protecting reproductive and sexual rights and for enabling women to enjoy those rights, he said. The ICPD Program of Action placed reproductive and sexual health and rights at the center of the population and development agenda. It also committed governments to strive to ensure universal access by 2015 to comprehensive reproductive health care, including family planning and services to protect sexual health. In an exchange of views following the UNFPA presentation, experts spoke of the need for information campaigns on reproductive and sexual health issues. It was also reiterated that increasing awareness about motherhood and spacing of children were very important.</p>","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 259","pages":"6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22040718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Millions of extra deaths a result of shortfalls in ODA.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 258","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22030047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}