Aspen Institute Publications

Aspen Institute publications are listed below. Many are available for purchase through Google Checkout, a secure system for handling credit card transaction online. For assistance with ordering publications, please contact our Publications office by email or by phone at (410) 820.5433. Please note: Orders are shipped two times a week from our warehouse in Queenstown, MD, on the Eastern Shore.

Policy Brief: Family Planning Promotes the Demographic Dividend

December 1, 2011

The demographic dividend is a powerful opportunity that occurs during the demographic shift from a population with high mortality and fertility rates to longer life expectancies and smaller family sizes. It offers the potential to boost economic growth and poverty reduction—but only if government leaders implement sound policies. 

Policy Brief: Population Growth, Reproductive Health and Sustainable Development

December 1, 2011

Today, the world’s nations must provide for an ever-growing population against a backdrop of food and water shortages, depleted resources, and a changing climate. Slower population growth would make that challenge easier to meet. Moreover, the means to slow growth—including family planning and other reproductive health services—can promote development that meets human needs today—and tomorrow.

Policy Brief: The Population-Climate Connection: Why Family Planning is a Win-Win for Women and the Planet

December 1, 2011

Family planning empowers women, improves public health, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and builds resilience to a changing climate. The bottom line: family planning is a win-win for women and the planet.

Health Worker Migration Initiative Global Policy Advisory Council Meeting- Washington, DC November, 22 2011

November 22, 2011

The council meeting focussed on a few things, namely: The US healthcare reform and its linkage to international migration, the Health Worker Migration Inovations Award, Council Conversation Series and the Council's mandate.

The Doha Round: An Obituary

David Kleimann, Joe Guinan, and Petros C. Mavroidis (Scientific Coordinator)
June 30, 2011

An outline of the history, causes and consequences of a failed Doha Round of trade negotiations.

Policy from the Ground Up: Reshaping Transantlatic Trade, Development and Food Security Policies to Africa's Needs

Katrin A. Kuhlmann and Kathryn Ritterspach
June 23, 2011

Publication focusses on the intersections and inconsistencies between transantlantic food security, trade and aid policies leading to recommendations on how to foster success in these areas of policymaking.

Africa's Development Corridors as Pathways to Agricultural Development, Regional Economic Integration and Food Security in Africa

Joe Guinan, Susan Sechler and Katrin Kuhlmann
June 15, 2011

This publication sets a framework for combining policy and investment in an innovative approach to food security and agricultural development in Africa.

Global Launch: MLI's Call to Action for Country-Led Development

June 15, 2011

At the 2011 Global Health Council Conference, MLI offically launched the Call to Action for Country-Led Development. More about the call to action launch can be read in the publication.

Building Regional Markets: AGOA and the Economic Partnership Agreements

Katrin A. Kuhlmann and Mwangi S. Kimenyi
June 7, 2011

The publication looks at the intricacies of building regional markets with emphasis to AGOA and other economic partnership agreements.

TransFarm Africa: Removing the Barriers to African Farm Prosperity

June 2, 2011

Highlights TransFarm's efforts of removing trade barriers to African farm prosperity through investing in Mtanga Farms in Tanzania.

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