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DD Resilience Reports Now Available

DD Resilience Reports Now Available

Considering the health and socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, and its close relationship with policies that enable a DD-favorable policy environment, this DDEI has integrated a module to assess the resilience and sustainability of systems in each sector. The scoring...

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Cultivating the Demographic Dividend Generation

Cultivating the Demographic Dividend Generation

Cultivating the Demographic Dividend Two decades after its inception, the debate on demographic dividends has come to oppose two contending views. On one side are the ultra-skeptics who dismiss dividends on ideological, methodological or empirical grounds. These...

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DD Quarterly

DD Quarterly

The Gates Institute publishes Demographic Dividend Quarterly, which provides news and updates to the demographic dividend community. Read the February 2019 issue, with highlights from the 5th International Conference on Family Planning here.

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New Video Explains the Fundamentals of the DD

New Video Explains the Fundamentals of the DD

January 30, 2019-To help explain the concept of the DD, the Gates Institute developed a 2-minute animated video that highlights the crucial components a country needs to put in place in order to harness the DD. Building on various existing DD resources, mainly from...

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The Risk of Misrepresenting the Demographic Dividend

April 18, 2016-The article "The risk of misrepresenting the demographic dividend" was featured in N-IUSSP, the magazine of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. This article describes why countries should take advantage of population age...

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What do we Learn by Counting Women’s Work?

April 21, 2016 - The Counting Women's Work project hosted a Google Hangout titled, "What do we Learn by Counting Women's Work?" that examined how combining the value of unpaid care and housework with traditional economic statistics affects the analysis and design of...

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