Africa's Demographic Transition : Dividend or Disaster?

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.