Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The …

quantum of fertility as indicated by the proportion of women who move to the next higher parity; and (2) the tempo of … fertility, as measured by the time it takes to make the transition for those women who continue reproduction. This paper focuses …The birth-interval approach to the study of fertility reflects two aspects of the process of reproduction: (1) the …

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and patterns of marital fertility are determined and their relation to the … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in …

marriage behavior in determining fertility levels. Coale's parameters of the age pattern of first marriage ao, k and C are … first marriage, marital disruption and remarriage on fertility. Techniques for obtaining detailed information on the process … on fertility are discussed. …

Although South African companies seem to make an attempt to employ more women to meet the required employment quotas …, not enough is being done to allow women to grow beyond certain levels in their jobs, and it appears that women are still … under-represented at top management level in corporate S.A. Despite employment-equity laws, gender inequalities regarding …

horticultural households in Senegal, West Africa.This paper contributes to the gender and economics literature providing empirical …-specific models rather than unitary model while investigating economic performance ofmen and women managers of separate plots within … between men and women’s plots. The gender-specific models showed that women are less technically efficient than men. This …

We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years … show a remarkable recovery in the performance of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture between 1984 and 2006 after a long period …