Young people as a key focus of development

Publications: Youth, Adolescents and Sexual and Reproductive Health

• Greene, Margaret E., and Jerry A. Jacobs. 1992. “Urban Enrollments and the Growth of Schooling,” in American Journal of Education, November.
• Greene, Margaret E., Zohra Rasekh, and Kali-Ahset Amen. 2002. In This Generation: Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies for a Youthful World. Washington, DC: Population Action International. View online
• United Nations Population Fund. 2003. The State of World Population 2003: Making 1 Billion Count: Investing in Adolescents’ Health and Rights. New York: UNFPA. (2 chapters) View online
• Fussell, M. Elizabeth, and Margaret E. Greene. 2002. “Demographic Trends Affecting Youth Around the World.” In Mortimer, Jeylan and Reed Larson, eds., The World’s Youth: Adolescence in Eight Regions of the Globe. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
• Greene, Margaret E., Laura Cardinal and Eve Goldstein-Siegel. 2010. Girls Speak: A New Voice in Global Development. Washington, DC: International Center for Research on Women. View online
• Greene, Margaret E. and Thomas W. Merrick. Forthcoming. “Adolescent Sexual Activity and Childbearing in Developing Countries: Challenges and Supports for Girls.” The World Bank Working Paper.
• Levine, Ruth, Cynthia Lloyd, Margaret E. Greene and Caren Grown. 2007, 2009. Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development. View online
• Greene, Margaret E. 2000 (1st printing 1997). “Watering the Neighbour’s Garden: Investing in Adolescent Girls in India.” South Asia Regional Working Paper #7, New Delhi: The Population Council.
• Mensch, Barbara S., Judith Bruce and Margaret E. Greene. 1998. The Uncharted Passage: Girls’ Adolescence in the Developing World. New York: The Population Council.
• Greene, Margaret E., Anjala Kanesathasan, Gwennan Hollingworth and Eve Goldstein-Siegel. 2010. On the Map: Charting the Landscape of Girl Work. Washington, DC: International Center for Research on Women.
• Greene, Margaret E. 1984. Book review. Sex Selection of Children, by Neil G. Bennett, in Population Today, November.
• Greene, Margaret E. and Irit Houvras. Forthcoming. “Policy Development Supporting Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health: Nine Countries’ Experiences.” New York: UNFPA.

Presentations: Youth, Adolescents and Sexual and Reproductive Health

• “The Cultural Antecedents of Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Theoretical Perspectives.” American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 1998.
• UNFPA, Consultation on Youth Reproductive Health Policies. Youth Reproductive Health Policy in Iran and India. Moscow, November 2002.
• Author Meets Critics panel on Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy (OUP 2006) by Jody Heymann, March 2007, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia.
• Keynote speaker, “The Girl Effect,” General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Cleveland, Ohio, June 2009.
• Columbia University, Southern Asian Institute. Watering the Neighbor’s Garden: Investing in Adolescent Girls in India. September 1996, New York, NY.