News from the PRI Library and Data Archive » Middle East http://info.pop.psu.edu Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:54:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/23/global-theme-issue-on-poverty-and-human-development/ http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/23/global-theme-issue-on-poverty-and-human-development/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:09:41 +0000 Tara Murray http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/23/global-theme-issue-on-poverty-and-human-development/ The Council of Science Editors organized a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development, in which science journals throughout the world simultaneously publish articles on this topic on October 22. 235 journals from developed and developing countries participated in the theme issue, including American Journal of Public Health, Health Education and Behavior, Journal of Adolescence, Reproductive Health Matters, and Science.

Penn State users can use the University Libraries Citation Linker to retrieve copies of individual articles.

]]> http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/23/global-theme-issue-on-poverty-and-human-development/feed/ Global spending on education http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/12/global-spending-on-education/ http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/12/global-spending-on-education/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:10:27 +0000 Tara Murray http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/12/global-spending-on-education/ The education budget of a single country like France, Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom outweighs education spending across the entire sub-Saharan African region, according to a new report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The Global Education Digest 2007 focuses on financing of education and includes the latest statistics on primary to tertiary education from more than 200 countries.

]]> http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/10/12/global-spending-on-education/feed/ UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007 http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/07/30/un-millennium-development-goals-report-2007/ http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/07/30/un-millennium-development-goals-report-2007/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:20:01 +0000 Tara Murray http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/07/30/un-millennium-development-goals-report-2007/ The UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007 (PDF) says that, halfway to the 2015 deadline, progress has been made toward the goals but there is still much work to be done.

]]> http://info.pop.psu.edu/2007/07/30/un-millennium-development-goals-report-2007/feed/ Iraqi birth rate up http://info.pop.psu.edu/2006/11/14/iraqi-birth-rate-up/ http://info.pop.psu.edu/2006/11/14/iraqi-birth-rate-up/#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:12:13 +0000 Tara Murray http://info.pop.psu.edu/2006/11/14/iraqi-birth-rate-up/ Despite ongoing violence, Iraq’s birth rate has increased to well above the average for the Middle East (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

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