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 …

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in … explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …

reduction policy in parts of South Africa's second-largest city, Cape Town, to investigate the mortality effects of load … policy statistically significantly reduces mortality in Cape Town relative to other parts of South Africa experiencing …South Africa frequently experiences rolling blackouts ('load shedding') due to shortfalls in electricity generation …

mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality …

Problem: Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries, with poor quality of …

and staffing; immediate breastfeeding and facility births; and neonatal mortality. We also extracted data on the primary … from 2001 to 2013. A 25 per cent reduction in neonatal mortality (relative risk, RR: 0.75; 95 per cent confidence interval …, CI: 0.69-0.80) was found when pooling six studies in settings with 44 or more deaths per 1,000 live births. In lower-mortality …

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 …

on the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Using data from …-income countries from 1996 through 2015. Our results show that the effects of total foreign aid on maternal mortality are limited, but … reductions in maternal mortality. Given these targeted effects, it is important to channel more donor assistance to the promotion …