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		<title>9.5 Billion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Officially, World Population Day occurs every year on July 11.  But for those who track the world’s changing demographics, another  population day occurs a few weeks later when the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) publishes its annual World Population Data Sheet, which is widely considered to be the most accurate source of information on population.  And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/28/9-5-billion/</link>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s New Population Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After years of neglect, Pakistan this year adopted a new population policy that promises to boost support for family planning services and information.  Earlier this month, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told a national convention on population that population growth is a bigger problem than the water and electricity crises that now grip the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/26/pakistans-new-population-policy/</link>
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		<title>The Growing Hunger Epidemic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not headline news, but hunger is on the rise in places like Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Niger.
In fact, Zimbabwe’s 2010 National Nutrition Survey reported that more than a third of the nation’s children under the age of five now suffer from malnutrition. This chronic malnutrition accounts for nearly 12,000 child deaths annually.  Dubbing the issue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/21/the-growing-hunger-epidemic/</link>
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		<title>MDG 5: Where Are We?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2000 the United Nations agreed on eight goals, collectively called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to reduce extreme poverty and hunger, improve health and education, empower women, and create environmental sustainability by 2015.  Now ten years later and with less than five years to go, how close are we to achieving those goals? The United Nations recently released The Millennium Development Goals Report: 2010, which looks at the gains that have been made and the areas that still need progress. The report points out some successes in getting children into schools, eliminating poverty, and preventing malaria and AIDS, but progress in reducing maternal mortality is still lagging.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/16/mdg-5-where-are-we/</link>
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		<title>Saving Niger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because women in Niger on average have seven children, Niger’s population is on track to jump from an estimated 15.3 million  in 2009 to 58 million by 2050. No one knows how Niger will feed itself in forty years.  That’s because no knows how Niger will feed itself today. 
Earlier this month, Josette Sheeran, the executive director of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/15/saving-niger/</link>
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		<title>Earth To Fred</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Pearce keeps on saying that population growth is no longer a problem. He said it again yesterday in Grist as part of his World Population Day message.
In Fred’s view it’s very simple.  Fertility rates have come down sharply over the past half century.  Problem solved. 
Sorry, Fred, saying that population growth is no longer a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/12/earth-to-fred/</link>
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		<title>World Population Day:  Asia Speaks Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World Population Day (July 11) received little attention in the United States yesterday.  Not so in Asia, where renewed concerns about rapid population growth are prompting governments to actively promote smaller families and expand family planning services.
In Pakistan yesterday, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told a national convention on population that population growth is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/12/world-population-day-asia-speaks-out/</link>
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		<title>World Population Day: Are We Losing the Race to Feed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday marks the 21st observance of World Population Day. The theme for this year is the importance of data collection.  Good demographic data are, after all, critically important in planning schools, health systems and public transportation, and essential in monitoring our progress with respect to health, nutrition, and the elimination of severe poverty.
World Population [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/07/08/world-population-day-are-we-losing-the-race-to-feed/</link>
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		<title>2030:  Looking at the &#8220;Perfect Storm&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year John Beddington, England’s chief scientific advisor, caused a minor stir when he warned that population growth, climate change, and the world’s rising demand for food, energy and water constitute a “perfect storm” that is threatening to destabilize the world by 2030 or sooner.
Today, we released a report that takes a closer look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/06/30/2030-looking-at-the-perfect-storm/</link>
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		<title>Did the G8 Deliver?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, more than three thousand family planning and reproductive health advocates gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women Deliver conference.  At the conference the Gates Foundation delivered:  Melinda Gates announced that the Gates Foundation would be spending another $1.5 billion in support of maternal health and nutrition programs. 
Hopes were high that the Bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/06/29/did-the-g8-deliver/</link>
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