Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The … into higher growth and yield a demographic dividend. We quantify the potential demographic dividend based on the experience … of other regions. The dividend will vary across countries, depending on such factors as the initial working age …

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) tend to lag those in most other regions in terms of governance and perceptions of …

, using data from around the time of the 1997 U.K. dividend tax reform, which removed a significant tax credit for an … dividend tax rates across all investors, and that U.K. pension funds should reduce their holdings of the previously tax …

revised dividend discount model, error-correction model, and multi-factor return-generating model. Despite the large …

has been relatively limited analysis of the dividend behavior of multinationals. We find that investors in multinationals … dividends, consistent with a view that such regular dividend payments are a mechanism through which to discipline host …-country managers. In contrast, German investors, who tend to invest in riskier countries, do not appear to demand persistent dividend …

with historical averages, and the dividend/price ratio has recently reached a historic low. These developments and record … paper assesses the recent rise in the stock market using a model for the equilibrium dividend/price ratio. While economic … variables can account for most of the recent fall in the dividend/price ratio, mutual-fund inflows still have some marginal …