Population and Development

This Wonkcast was originally recorded in February 2011. Andy Sumner updates the data from the original Bottom Billion brief in his recent working paper, Where Will the World's Poor Live? An Update on Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion. Paul Collier’s 2007 book, The Bottom Billion: Why the ...

This week’s London Summit on Family Planning marks a renewed focus on a long neglected development issue. As my guest, former World Bank demographer and CGD visiting fellow John May writes this week in the Financial Times (gated) and on CGD’s Global Health blog that access to contraception is not on...