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How Significant is Africa's Demographic Dividend for its Future Growth and Poverty Reduction?
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of … catch up to other developing countries. If the skill share of Africa's labor supply doubles because of improvements in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972402
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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty
Cruz, Marcio - 2017
Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968199
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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
Enache, Maria - 2017
This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968717
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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda
Bundervoet, Tom - 2017
This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970754
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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications
Akyeampong, Emmanuel - 2017
growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974151
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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications -- Part I: The Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods
Akyeampong, Emmanuel - 2017
's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975271
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Demographic Change and Development : A Global Typology
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
Demographic change can be a positive contributor to development at any stage of demographic transition. This paper revisits the literature on the determinants and economic impacts of demographic change, and presents a new global typology that classifies countries into four categories based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967334
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Health, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth
Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2017
This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976542
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963654
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Housing and Urbanization in Africa : Unleashing a Formal Market Process
Collier, Paul - 2017
the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973218