Africa's Demographic Transition
eBook - PDF

Africa's Demographic Transition

Dividend or Disaster?

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Africa's Demographic Transition

Dividend or Disaster?

About this book

This book lays out a range of policy actions that are needed at the various phases of the demographic transition and uses global and regional experiences to provide evidence on what has worked and what has not. Countries have a menu of options available to speed up the transition, improve investment in the resulting youth cohort, expand labor markets, and encourage savings. This book not only looks at lessons from East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, but also at unique demographic characteristics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Harnessing the demographic dividend means, first and foremost, empowering women and girls by improving their health, enhancing their human capital through increased investment in education and skills, and providing them with greater market, social, and decision-making power. The full potential of the demographic dividend can be realized in Sub-Saharan Africa with proactive policies that can help to make it happen.

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Yes, you can access Africa's Demographic Transition by David Canning, Sangeeta Raja, Abdo S. Yazbeck in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Economics & Development Economics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. About the Editors and Contributors
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Overview
  8. 1 The State of Demographics in Sub-Saharan Africa
  9. 2 Speeding the Demographic Transition
  10. 3 Education Effects of the Demographic Dividend
  11. 4 Economic Effects of the Demographic Dividend
  12. Index
  13. Boxes
  14. Figures
  15. Maps
  16. Tables