"Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population … growth (with an accompanying state of chronic extreme poverty) has been attributed to many factors ranging from the status of …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid … population growth (with an accompanying state of chronic extreme poverty) has been attributed to many factors ranging from the …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population … growth (with an accompanying state of chronic extreme poverty) has been attributed to many factors ranging from the status of …

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women … surveys in 1993-94 and 2004-05. Although total fertility rates have declined for the country as a whole and for all states …

been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are … mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility … relationship between wanted fertility and number of children born in a panel of 200 country-years controlling for country …