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 …

China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the …

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …

This paper studies the effects of capital tax reforms on retained earnings, dividend tax revenues, and income … inequality in Israel between 2001 and 2020. We analyze two major dividend tax reforms: a permanent rate increase in 2012 and a … increase in the dividend tax rate resulted in an immediate increase of over 100% in the withdrawal of retained earnings and in …

stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized … a flat 5 percent for the rest of the distribution. Households' consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend …