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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries

Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020

providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …

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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when … these areas, coordinated policies will likely be most effective in generating the momentum needed to pull Africa's economies …

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Population growth and multiple equilibria : inferences from a modified Ramsey model

Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011

The demographic transition is introduced into the otherwise standard Ramsey model to generate multiple equilibria, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions under which multiplicity is realized. Three cases arise,...

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Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality

Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …

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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...

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Human capital, mortality and fertility : a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo (contributor); Sunde, Uwe (contributor) - 2007

This paper argues that accounting for the dynamic interactions between endogenous changes in longevity, the education composition of the population, and the associated fertility differential is crucial for understanding the economic and the demographic transition. In the model, heterogeneous...

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The demographic transition : causes and consequences

Galor, Oded - 2012

This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...

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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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Mother Africa's exceptionalism? : income and fertility redux

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2022

We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world. Causal inference is enabled through proxying income windfalls by oil price shocks in oil rich versus oil poor provinces. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find...

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The biocultural origins of human capital formation

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014

This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...

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