This paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth in Uganda. After showing that Uganda has one of the highest population growth rates in the world which, due to the inherent demographic momentum, will persist for some time to come, it then considers the impact of...

Stephan Klasens Beitrag, im englischen Original in der Review of Income and Wealth erschienen, zeigt, dass die Ergebnisse einer monetären ausgabenbasierten Armutsanalyse für Südafrika teilweise deutlich und in armuts- und sozialpolitisch relevanter Weise von denen eines...

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involved a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...