Success depends on adequate investments in health care, education and job creation.
Above, job trainingcentre in Bangladesh. Above, student in Bangladesh. Although the average age of marriage is increasing worldwide, millions of women still begin childbearing in their teens. In the years ahead, families will have more older members, notes The State of World Population 1998 report, and many will have both older and younger dependants at the same time. Above, family members in China's Yunnan Province.