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"Leave No Woman Behind: Ethiopia," the baseline report for the project of the same name, is now available as a free PDF.

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Focus on Schooling, a Universal Right

Formal schools are the primary setting in which most young people acquire the productive skills needed for adulthood. Schools also are the most important institutions outside the family involved in socializing young people into all dimensions of adult roles and responsibilities. For more information on Population Council research on schooling, follow the links to some recent projects below.

Students attend a life-skills class at Merkato, a neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Photo: Fikreyesus Garredew/Population Council

Annual Report 2007

Population and Development Review, September

Population and Development Review supplement: Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth (more) (contents)

Studies in Family Planning, September

Report: "Study of sexually transmitted infections among urban men in Pakistan: Identifying the bridging population" (PDF)

Brief: "Informed consent in HIV prevention trials: Highlights from an international workshop" (PDF in English) (PDF en español) (PDF en français) (PDF no português) (PDF in Swahili) (PDF in Zulu)

Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Paper:
"Marriage considerations in sending girls to school in Bangladesh: Some qualitative evidence" (abstract) (PDF)

Briefs: Promoting Healthy, Safe, and Productive Transitions to Adulthood (more)

ECafrique is soliciting 1–2-paragraph contributions on the relationship between emergency contraception and STIs/HIV for its upcoming newsletter. E-mail your submission to ecafrique@popcouncil.org by 15 September. (For more information, contact ECafrique)

Population Council senior scientist Marc Goldstein will head a study of a new male circumcision device for HIV prevention. (more)

The Population Council and Council Distinguished Scholar Sheldon J. Segal will be awarded the 2008 Prix Galien USA Pro Bono Humanum Award. (more)

Justin Rockefeller, a youth-civic-engagement activist, and Anna Mastroianni, a legal scholar and bioethicist, are the Council's newest trustees. (more)

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