the Benin region of colonial Nigeria. Planters initially obtained land by traditional methods. Mature plantations were …

Nigeria's Benin region was a major rubber producer in 1960. In 1921, however, the government abandoned the industry as …'s wild rubber resources. The government was unable to protect Benin's rubber forests from over-exploitation. Expatriate firms …

innovative strategic groups are demonstrated, analyzing the case of the African poor in Benin and the African Diasporas of Brazil …

die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality …. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …

and the government bodies in the developed world. Significant and consistent improvements in mortality rates and hence … explosion of stochastic mortality models forecasting trends in mortality data in order to anticipate future life expectancy and … hence quantify the costs of providing for future ageing populations. Many stochastic models of mortality rates identify …

can be explained in terms of reduction in child mortality due to the immunization program. Kumar (2009) finds that UIP has … a significant and negative eect on infant and under-five mortality. …

importance of secularly declining young adult mortality risk for producing secularly declining fertility and a sudden decline in …

This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a …, land holding, tenurial status, and the mortality experience of households. The mortality data obtained from the PLM survey … are discussed briefly in the first section of the paper; Mortality differentials by characteristics of the child, mother …