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Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …
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Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and … low in Eastern and Southern Africa. …
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This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
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The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...
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, probably as a result of the 1997 East Asian crisis and the relatively poor performance of Corporate Africa. Melvin Ayogu who … study. In carrying out this study we considered 103 listed companies drawn from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa and …
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that could lead to abnonnal gains. Southern Africa isrepresented by Botswana, Namibia. Mauritius and Zimbabwe, East Africa … by Kenya,West Africa by Ghana and the BRVM, and North Africa by Egypt, Morocco andTunisia. Such evidence, if it exists … study benchmarks the findings with those of South Africa'sJohannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Securities Exchange; other …
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teenstelling met die kritici van ontwikkelingsteun wat handhaaf dat steun wat aan ontwikkelende lande, veral in Afrika, gegee word …
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suggestions. Perceptions were drawn from commerciallenders/investors of microfinance programmes based in Africa. Needless to say … model can be useful in guiding successfulcommercialisation schemes in Africa because it provides MFIs with a structured … mikrofinansieringsinstansieswêreldwyd, en hierdie studie ondersoek die omstandighede waaronder Afrika semikrofinansieringsinstansies (MFIs) kommersiële …
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the economy. For over a long time the delivery of infrastructure in Africa has been the domain of the public sector … very low in Africa. The research noted that certain obstacles at macro level of the economy are responsible for the low … used to attract private sector participation in infrastructure delivery in Africa. One method that is gaining popularity in …
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