goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty reduction. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important … determinants of reproductive health. While fertility and contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) are evenly distributed, wide gaps in … access to maternal health services remain. Bangladesh will need to focus on increasing political commitment to adolescent …

baseline and end line surveys of the Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH 2007-2012) project; and the Pakistan … Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) of 1990-1991 and of 2006-2007, this study explores Pakistani (especially Punjabi) couples … reproductive health interventions for men in Punjab. Yet heavy spending on media campaigns may not be as effective as interpersonal …

methods. Strengthening the synergy and coordination of service delivery between the Health and FP directorates by building … reproductive health services through community clinics need to remain at the forefront of the government?s health improvement …

children resulting in better convergence of programmes and increased allocation of resources to address child protection issues … millions of children in our country who are subjected to violence and exploitation. …

Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality … a market-based system. Several characteristics of the transformation have direct bearing on gender equality and are …

associations between poverty (land ownership, consumer expenditure, housing, nutrition, health, etc.) and demographic variables … (children mortality, fertility, family planning, etc.); presents multivariate models of demographic behaviour and causes of …