In the first paragraphs I don't see reference to population control, but I would hope that topic shows up later in the story. If girls were not having children at 14, we could maybe get a handle on food and environmental problems.
SAVING THE WORLD'S WOMEN http://bit.ly/17KEZb How changing the lives of women and girls in the developing world can change everything The New York Times Sunday Magazine By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN Published: August 17, 2009 IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape. Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. "Women hold up half the sky," in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that's mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it's not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There's a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That's why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html?hp
