changes in adult mortality rates. An upsurge of cardiovascular and external cause mortality caused a massive premature loss of … life among working-age men in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. In contrast, cardiovascular mortality has fallen at a … changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about …

of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …

achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …

Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential …

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …