We are pleased to announce that two new working papers (2007, No. 7 and 8) have just been posted online. The abstracts and links to the full text of the papers are provided below. Please feel free to share these working papers with interested colleagues or to suggest names to be added to our email notification list.
The working paper series is now part of the Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program. This is one of the three programs in the restructuring of the Population Council that is described on the Council website (www.popcouncil.org). Through the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program, Population Council staff members seek to understand the social dimensions of poverty, the determinants and consequences of gender inequality, the disparities that arise during adolescence, and the critical elements of a successful transition to adulthood in developing countries. Program activities also include developing and evaluating innovative programs--especially those related to empowerment, health, education, and livelihoods--to address the needs of the poor, women and youth in particular. Program staff also continue the Council’s long-standing tradition of providing demographic analysis of the links between population growth and development at the macro and micro levels.
For information on papers in the PGY series and the predecessor Policy Research Division series, including those that are available for downloading in PDF format, see www.popcouncil.org/publications/wp/index.html.
