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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 … that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the working-age to dependent population will be greater than in Asia, Europe, and … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when …

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The dynamics of women’s labour supply in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010

; dynamics ; Africa ; Asia ; Latin America … that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

; Africa ; Asia …

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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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The long-term outcomes of refugees : tracking the progress of the East African Asians

Anders, Jake; Burgess, Simon M.; Portes, Jonathan - 2018

Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of refugees in the UK. We fill this gap by looking at the case of "East African Asians" who arrived as...

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Human capital by gender : a G20 and selected geographies perspective

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - 2024

Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 chapter. It focuses on five important country groups by gender - Asia, Africa, Latin America, the G …

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Shine a (night)light : decentralization and economic development in Burkina Faso

Bargain, Olivier; Vincent, Rose Camille; Caldeira, Emilie - 2024

the last decades, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, few studies propose a quasi-experimental evaluation of its …

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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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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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How large is the private sector in Africa? : evidence from national accounts and labor markets

Stampini, Marco; Leung, Ron; Diarra, Setou M.; Pla, … - 2011

In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …

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