The Population Challenge: Key to Global Survival

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Acronyms

APPG All Party Parliamentary Group (UK)

CPIA Country Policy and Institutional Assessment

DRC Democratic Republic of Congo

FAO Food and Agricultural Organization (UN)

FfP Fund for Peace

GDP Gross domestic product

IDA International Development Agency

LICUS Low Income countries under stress

MDG Millennium Development Goal

MMRs Maternal mortality ratios

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)

UN United Nations

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNFPA United National Population Fund

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

WHO World Health Organization