Leading Global Health will be on hiatus until the New Year. Until then, here’s what we’ve been keeping up with in the news.

The Economist: Miracle or Malthus

At the International Conference on Family Planning last month, a high level meeting was convened to discuss strategies for African countries to obtain the demographic dividend. This hot topic is continuing to garner international attention. The Economist recently published an article on the possible population outcomes for Africa: demographic disaster or demographic dividend.

At the end of November, world leaders gathered in Busan, Korea to discuss progress on the implementation of the Paris Declaration and the integration of aid effectiveness into the development agenda.

The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness resulted in a document describing the way forward called the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, which was signed by ministers of developed and developing countries as well as civil society.

This document, however, was not agreed upon without debate. And leading the developing countries’ push for greater ownership of aid was Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame.