With population a key influence on the environment, UNFPA says the 1994 Cairo conference on population and development linked environmental protection to individual decision-making and human rights.
Research published in the March issue of the journal Population and Development Review found the more children that parents over age 40 have, the happier they are.
Its work led to the first Global Interfaith Network on Population and Development, launched in 2008, with the participation of more than 160 faith-based organizations and religious leaders.
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And it comes at a time when demand is growing from factors such as the ageing population, development of new treatments and rise in conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.
Additionally, The UN Foundation is currently leading a large-scale, multi-stakeholder advocacy effort which seeks to strengthen the leadership role of the United States in advancing progress toward the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets of universal access to reproductive health by 2015.
Inclusive growth requires the participation of a large segment of the population in the development process.
And that was at a time when the congestion arising from development and population density of the area was nothing like what it is today.
Other questions were from Viscount Craigavon, a crossbench peer, who asked the government what priority it is giving in international development to population issues and reproductive health and rights.
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The number of middle-class Africans tripled over the past three decades to 313 million, or about 34% of the continent's population, the African Development Bank says in its latest report.
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We live in a time when the risk of disaster is growing thanks to climate change, population growth, and economic development itself.
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Increasing development and a population of four million, plus unregulated factories and a 17% increase in vehicles per year, has created an air pollution problem that the Nepalese government is desperate to solve.
This is a quickly fading paradigm which has held us in its grip for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has affected every aspect of our human life from politics , economics , health and religion to population migration, wars, and scientific development.
Most of that is gone, Pierce says, and for all the commitment to "Save the Bay" he is of the view little progress has been made, and that development on the shoreline, population growth in the area and runoff from area farms and lawns have greatly outpaced conservation and restoration efforts.
While a study is currently in progress at this point in time with the same research group linked below, specific to those with autism spectrum disorders, the linked research suggests that language development delays in the general population are associated with high levels of prenatal testosterone among males but high levels of prenatal testosterone among females provides a protective effect for language development.
Tremendous population growth, changes in government policies, development of new technologies, urbanization trends work the same way.
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Community media are a major source of news for most of the population and contribute to the well-being and development of ordinary citizens.
The government paper sets out plans for more affordable housing, a new road to by-pass the centre of Ballasalla and the development of schools to meet a growing population.
Our main objective is to educate U.S. environmental scientists on the demographics of their own country, to improve coverage of these issues in their teaching, and to actively advocate development of a sane U.S. population policy.
The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.
"The era of easy gains where economic development would lift people out of poverty and reduce population growth is over, " says the Indian.
As of now, governments are set to agree to "commit to systematically consider population trends and projections in our national, rural and urban development strategies and policies".
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"People of mixed race are among the fastest-growing group in the population of our country", and this is "a development with which our country is at ease", Mr Miliband said.
This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
HarVa, a start-up that focuses primarily on skill development, community-based farming and microfinance for the population of rural India.
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And we had to make farming less labor-dependent, so that more of the population could enter non-farming occupations and support economic growth and development.
Underpinning this development is the integration of half the world's population into the global market economy, and the deepening and broadening of the capital and derivative markets.
The composition of our ethnic population and also the difficulties presented by our geographical terrain make communication and development difficult.
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Development in rural areas, where two-thirds of the population live, is minimal.
Zambia's unwise nationalisation of the mines in 1969 (as advised by the best of British development economists) may have contributed to declining copper production but population pressures, shifts in the terms of trade since the 1970s and a burden of debt to the West that originated then in recycled petro-dollars have contributed massively to the impoverishment of the country.
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