Family and Population Index

The following are articles and data sources related to population and family issues

I. ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS

(this section includes not-published version of these papers, to access the published versions please go to Publications)

• Family and Economic Development

            1.  The Development of the treatment of the Family in UN Documents

            2.  The Treatment of the Family in the United Nations

• Power Point Presentation at World Family Policy Center, Brigham Young University, July 16-19
• United Nations Policy and the Family: Redefining the Ties that Bind (This paper can be accessed at the Journal of Public Law, BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School) 

            4.  Working Mothers' Contribution to Family Income:  Proportions and Effects

            5.  Does the Family Have a Place in Habitat?, Columbia University, June 2001.

            6.  The Family:  Human Capital Implications and The Cost to Society

            8.  The Family:  Human Capital Implications and Real Sustainable Economic Growth

            9.  Effective Measures Against Poverty, World Congress of Families III, Mexico, March 2004.

          10.  The Family and Economic Development, Family as Foundation for Social Development, Focus on the Family, July 2004.

          11.  The Family and Economic Development:  Socio-economic Relevance and Policy Design, Paper presented in Geneva,  

                 August 2004   

          13.  The HIPC Initiative and its Effects on the Family

          14.  Economic Development:  Women and the Family, Presented at UN 49th Session of the CSW, March 2005.

          15.  Millennium Development Goals: Background Paper, June 2005.

16. Creating Effective Links: ABC in Uganda: Evaluation and Success, UNESCO, Buenos Aires, Argentina, February    2006

          17.  Family Dinning, Excellence in the Home, London, UK, May, 2006.

• PowerPoint Presentation: Family Dinning, Excellence in the Home, London, UK, May, 2006.
• Maria Sophia Aguirre, “The Economy Begins in the Kitchen”, MercatorNet:, June 14^th, 2006.

18.  Business, Family and Human Capital: Harvesting the Seeds of Economic Growth,  El Salvador, February 1st, 2007. (PowerPoint)

19.  "Family Structure, Wealth, and Economic Growth”, at World Conference of Families IV, Warsaw, Poland, May 11-13^th, 2007.

 20.  “Food Distribution and Economic Growth”, at 2^nd Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Family Harmony and Economic Growth, Beijing University, Beijing, China, May 15-16^th.

21.  "Family and Economic Development", Institut, Catholique de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, June 14th, 2007.

21.  “The Cost of Family Decline in Lost Social Capital and Increased Poverty”, 2007 World Family Policy Forum: Achieving Development without Losing our Families, BYU, July 9-11, 2007.

22.  "Determinants of Economic Growth, Population and Family Wealth: The Case of Guatemala", September 8th, Guatemala, 2007

•         Power Point Presentation: Spanish
•         Power Point Presentation: English

23.  "Business, Family and Human Capital", Women of Vision,. Chicago, November 8, 2007

24.  "Family and Economic Development: Harvesting the Seeds of Economic Growth", Cuarto Congreso Internacional de la Familia, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, May 25-26, 2008

•     Power Point Presentation paper
•     Paper
•     Global Worming and Demographic Aging: Its effects on Global Prosperity

B. In Spanish    

1. Desarrollo Sostenido:  Porqué el Énfasis en Población? El Caso de Honduras

2. Desarrollo Sostenido:  Porqué el Énfasis en Población? El Caso de El Salvador

3. Desarrollo Sostenido:  Porqué el Énfasis en Población? El Caso de Nicaragua

4. Alcances Socioeconómicos de la Perspectiva del Género

5. Países en Vías de Desarrollo en una Economía Global Creciente: Mercados Financieros, Privatización, y Políticas de Integración versus Protección

6. La Mujer: Clave para el Desarrollo - El Caso de Centro America

7. La Mujer: Clave para el Desarrollo - El Caso de Centro America y Honduras

8. La Familia: Clave para el Desarrollo- Argentina

9. Un Modelo de Sociedad Elegido por Nosotros o Impuesto? - Argentina

10. Jóvenes y…¿Algo Más?- Argentina

 

• Population

1. Population, Resources, and Environment: A Survey of the Debate

              2.   Population, Resources and Environment: Why the Focus on Population?

              3.  Sustainable Development: Why the Focus on Population?

              4.  Hindered Growth: The Ideology and Implications of Population Assistance

              5.  The Ideology of Population Assistance, The Family in America, 15:2, 2001.

              6.  Population Assistance and the Need for True Development, The Family in America,  15:2, 2001.

              7.  United Nations' Policy and the Family in the Context of Population Control, Veritas, 34:1, 2001. 

              8.  Sustainable Development:  Why the Focus on Population?, UVA, October 2004

              9.  "Aging Population: Paying the Consequences", World and I, April, 2000, pp. 66-71.

            10.  "Putting a Price on an Aging Population"

II. DATA

    1.  Population Sites Index