ISBN:
9781464804892
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Canning, David Africa's Demographic Transition : Dividend or Disaster?
DDC:
304.6/20967
Keywords:
Age distribution (Demography) - Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Age distribution (Demography) - Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Demographic transition ; Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Population
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Demographic transition ; Economic aspects ; Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Introduction -- Demographic Dividend or Disaster -- Demographic Dynamics in Africa -- Slow Declines in Fertility -- Variations in the Fertility Transition -- Speeding up the Transition -- Encouraging Smaller Families -- Changing Social Norms and Gender Equality -- Delaying the Age of Marriage and Planning Families -- Human Development Payoffs -- Better Child and Maternal Health -- Investments in Girls' Education -- Jobs Payoffs -- Changing Age Structure -- More Women in the Workforce -- Economic Growth in Africa -- How the Age Structure Can Drive Growth -- Savings Payoffs -- Investment Payoffs -- What the Demographic Dividend Could Deliver -- Policies to Speed up the Demographic Transition -- Policies to Reap the Demographic Dividend -- Notes -- References -- 1 The State of Demographics in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Introduction -- Population and Economic Development -- The Demographic Transition in East Asia and Latin America -- Population Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Demographic Trends within Sub-Saharan Africa -- Implications for the Demographic Dividend -- Notes -- References -- 2 Speeding the Demographic Transition -- Introduction -- Child Health and Fertility -- Female Education and Fertility -- Social Norms and Fertility -- Gender Equity and Fertility -- Female Labor Market Opportunities and Fertility -- Urbanization and Fertility -- Proximate Determinants of Fertility -- Effective Family Planning: Barriers, Costs, and Public Subsidies -- Notes -- References -- 3 Education Effects of the Demographic Dividend -- Trends in Schooling and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Fertility and Investments in Education -- Pathways of Achieving a School Dividend.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Introduction -- Demographic Dividend or Disaster -- Demographic Dynamics in Africa -- Slow Declines in Fertility -- Variations in the Fertility Transition -- Speeding up the Transition -- Encouraging Smaller Families -- Changing Social Norms and Gender Equality -- Delaying the Age of Marriage and Planning Families -- Human Development Payoffs -- Better Child and Maternal Health -- Investments in Girls' Education -- Jobs Payoffs -- Changing Age Structure
Description / Table of Contents:
More Women in the Workforce -- Economic Growth in Africa -- How the Age Structure Can Drive Growth -- Savings Payoffs -- Investment Payoffs -- What the Demographic Dividend Could Deliver -- Policies to Speed up the Demographic Transition -- Policies to Reap the Demographic Dividend -- Notes -- References -- 1 The State of Demographics in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Introduction -- Population and Economic Development -- The Demographic Transition in East Asia and Latin America -- Population Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Demographic Trends within Sub-Saharan Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Implications for the Demographic Dividend -- Notes -- References -- 2 Speeding the Demographic Transition -- Introduction -- Child Health and Fertility -- Female Education and Fertility -- Social Norms and Fertility -- Gender Equity and Fertility -- Female Labor Market Opportunities and Fertility -- Urbanization and Fertility -- Proximate Determinants of Fertility -- Effective Family Planning: Barriers, Costs, and Public Subsidies -- Notes -- References -- 3 Education Effects of the Demographic Dividend -- Trends in Schooling and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Fertility and Investments in Education -- Pathways of Achieving a School Dividend -- Decomposition Analysis: Demographic Changes and Educational Resources per Child -- Policies to Reap Africa's Promising Schooling Dividend -- Notes -- References -- 4 Economic Effects of the Demographic Dividend -- Trends in Africa's Recent Economic Performance -- Jobs Payoffs -- Savings and Investment Payoffs -- Modeling Economic Growth and the Demographic Dividend: Simulation Results for Nigeria -- Policies to Reap Africa's Promising Economic Dividends -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E
Description / Table of Contents:
F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z -- Boxes -- O.1 Cohort Size and Youth Unemployment -- 1.1 The Challenges of Fixed Global Resources and Environmental Degradation -- 2.1 The Effect of Education Reform on Teenage Fertility in Ethiopia -- Figures -- O.1 Four Stages of the Demographic Transition in Sweden, 1750-2010 -- O.2 Actual and Projected Ratio of Working-Age Population 16-64 Years of Age to Dependents in Select World Regions, 1950-2100 -- O.3 Under-Five Mortality Rate in Select World Regions, 1960-2012
Description / Table of Contents:
O.4 Total Fertility Rate in Select World Regions, 1960-2012
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