This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the … have stalled once they have begun, we nevertheless conclude that there are many underlying features of Africa today which … on some of the economic implications of a demographic dividend in Africa, including the helpful fact that when it occurs …

cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …

-Saharan Africa shows that the perceived 'user friendliness' (or ease of use) of services drives popular evaluations of government …