Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of … educational outcomes. If African countries can continue to build on the hard-won development gains, the demographic dividend could … catch up to other developing countries. If the skill share of Africa's labor supply doubles because of improvements in …

proposal involves distributing annually a share of resource rents to citizens in the form of direct dividend transfers … incentive to provide direct dividend transfers relative to public goods. This combination of conditions is rare, which may … explain why relatively few countries have implemented or plan to implement direct dividend transfers …