Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and … poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

investigate the impact of two start-up programs on long-run labor market and fertility outcomes of female participants. We find … situations. The impact on fertility is less detrimental than for traditional ALMP programs. …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …