Poverty
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April 17th 2013
Uganda: Population growth chews up jobs
Rapid population growth in Uganda has constrained the capacity of the economy to generate sufficient employment for the increasing labourforce. This was revealed by Francis Mondo Kyateka, the assistant commissioner for... -
April 16th 2013
Progress in combating childhood stunting
A United Nations nutrition report released today shows that progress has been made in recent years in addressing stunting in children, and calls for increased efforts to accelerate a response... -
March 20th 2013
Philippines: Supreme Court delays RH bill
The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily halted a landmark law that would provide free contraception to poor women. In a 10-to-5 ruling, the court froze for 120 days when the... -
March 19th 2013 | Tags: Ecosystems and biodiversity, Poverty
Pope has a hope
New Pope says: “I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: Let... -
March 4th 2013
Sudan: 13 million suffer food shortage
The federal Minister of Health, Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, revealed that a survey conducted by the ministry in 13 states in Sudan indicates that around 13 million people suffer from... -
January 31st 2013
Middle classes grow, but so do the poor
While the developing world's emerging middle class has more than doubled in size over the past decade – the number of people classified as near poor has also been on... -
January 22nd 2013
IDC forgets people (press release)
Population Matters welcomes the International Development Committee’s call for environmental sustainability to be incorporated in the new development goals. In a world of climate change, collapsing biodiversity and approaching resource... -
November 20th 2012
UN: By 2050 1 in 3 global births will be African
Marking Universal Children's Day today, the United Nations children's agency released a study forecasting just a four per cent increase in the global population of children by 2025, but adding... -
November 16th 2012
The Great Africa Land Grab: Comment
Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, writes in The Ecologist. Land grabbing has fast become a major threat to poor communities in Africa, Asia and South America. Poverty-stricken... -
November 5th 2012 | Tags: Family planning and reproductive health, Population info and analysis, Poverty, Resources
Population Matters consults on SDGs
We have developed some of the sustainable development goals that we would like to see. They are listed here. If you have any comments, write to us at enquiries@populationmatters.org
