Population Growth And Policies In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : World Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040443124

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Population Growth and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa by World Bank Pdf

For sub - Saharan Africa, the need for reductions in population growth rates is a critical component in achieving greater economic development and higher standards of living. Correspondingly, the present report focuses on the economic consequences of rapid population growth in Africa and on policies and programs to reduce it. The report basically has three themes. The first theme centers on the deep concern that rapid population growth in Africa is slowing development and sharply reducing the possibility of raising living standards. The second theme revolves around the recent evidence of the change in ideas and behavior regarding fertility. With more and more governments expressing concern over the issue, the idea of family planning is gaining acceptance. Finally, the last theme concerns the involvement of Governments in the development of population policy and programmes. If progress in population policy is to be rapid and programs are to expand steadily, some strategic reorientation of the direction and nature of government involvement is needed. Slowing population growth in the next few decades, as part of broader development strategies, can help to relieve poverty and raise living standards for Africa's people.

Author : Hans Groth,John F. May
Publisher : Springer
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319468891

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Africa's Population: In Search of a Demographic Dividend by Hans Groth,John F. May Pdf

This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the labor force grows. It offers a detailed analysis of what conditions must be met in order for the region to take full economic advantage of ongoing population dynamics. As the book makes clear, the region will need to accelerate reforms to cope with its demographic transition, in particular the decline of fertility. The continent will need to foster human capital formation through renewed efforts in the areas of education, health and employment. This will entail a true vision and determination on the part of African leaders and their development partners. The book will help readers to gain solid knowledge of the demographic trends and provide insights into socioeconomic policies that eventually might lead sub-Saharan Africa into a successful future.

Author : Mr.Dhaneshwar Ghura,Mr.Michael T. Hadjimichael
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451855753

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Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa by Mr.Dhaneshwar Ghura,Mr.Michael T. Hadjimichael Pdf

The paper investigates empirically the determinants of economic growth for a large sample of sub-Saharan African countries during 1981-92. The results indicate that (i) an increase in private investment has a relatively large positive impact on per capita growth; (ii) growth is stimulated by public policies that lower the budget deficit in relation to GDP (without reducing government investment), reduce the rate of inflation, maintain external competitiveness, promote structural reforms, encourage human capital development, and slow population growth; and (iii) convergence of per capita income occurs after controlling for human capital development and public policies.

Author : Rashid Faruqee,Ravi Gulhati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Africa
ISBN : MINN:31951P00864952K

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Rapid Population Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa by Rashid Faruqee,Ravi Gulhati Pdf

Substantial social and economic progress in sub - Saharan Africa during the past 15 years has not altered the traditional regime of very high fertility. Explanations for this paradox have to turn to broad societal characteristics not captured by multivariate analysis of the household level. The search for physical survival promotes a very large family norm. High fertility may also reflect the predicament of the African woman. This paper argues that enough is known to provide a reliable basis for policies aimed at reducing fertility. The case for such policies rests on evidence that the challenge posed by accelerating population growth in Africa has not elicited a commensurate response in the form of technological or organizational progress. Instead, growing population numbers have accentuated the food deficit, magnified the budgetary problem of financing basic needs services and complicated the employment issue. The paper projects future population growth of nine sample countries, accounting for two-thirds of Africa's total population, on the basis of four sets of assumptions. These exercises confirm the desirability of action by African governments to reduce fertility.

Author : Thomas J. Goliber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003264368

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Africa's Expanding Population by Thomas J. Goliber Pdf

The region's population growth will slow only when African couples begin to have fewer children. The average number of children per woman ranges form 6 to 8 for most countries. The African's preference for large families is deeply rooted in the culture and fed by the perceived economic benefits they receive from their children.

Author : Dhaneshwar Ghura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1291213698

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Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa by Dhaneshwar Ghura Pdf

The paper investigates empirically the determinants of economic growth for a large sample of sub-Saharan African countries during 1981-92. The results indicate that (i) an increase in private investment has a relatively large positive impact on per capita growth; (ii) growth is stimulated by public policies that lower the budget deficit in relation to GDP (without reducing government investment), reduce the rate of inflation, maintain external competitiveness, promote structural reforms, encourage human capital development, and slow population growth; and (iii) convergence of per capita income occurs after controlling for human capital development and public policies.

Author : Deryke Belshaw,the late Arthur Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134528530

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Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Deryke Belshaw,the late Arthur Ian Livingstone Pdf

Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. They lay the foundation for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constraints and opportunities. The emphasis of the book is on the identification of effective strategies that will enable individual countries to most effectively exploit their growth opportunities and to meet poverty-reducing and other key equity objectives.

Author : Moriba Touré,Theophilus Oyeyemi Fadayomi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004037110

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Migrations, Development, and Urbanization Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa by Moriba Touré,Theophilus Oyeyemi Fadayomi Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309381192

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Recent Fertility Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

Fertility rates and population growth influence economic development. The marked declines in fertility seen in some developing nations have been accompanied by slowing population growth, which in turn provided a window of opportunity for rapid economic growth. For many sub-Saharan African nations, this window has not yet opened because fertility rates have not declined as rapidly there as elsewhere. Fertility rates in many sub-Saharan African countries are high: the total rate for the region is estimated to be 5.1 births per woman, and rates that had begun to decline in many countries in the region have stalled. High rates of fertility in these countries are likely to contribute to continued rapid population growth: the United Nations projects that the region's population will increase by 1.2 billion by 2050, the highest growth among the regions for which there are projections. In June 2015, the Committee on Population organized a workshop to explore fertility trends and the factors that have influenced them. The workshop committee was asked to explore history and trends related to fertility, proximate determinants and other influences, the status and impact of family planning programs, and prospects for further reducing fertility rates. This study will help donors, researchers, and policy makers better understand the factors that may explain the slow pace of fertility decline in this region, and develop methods to improve family planning in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : David Canning,Sangeeta Raja,Abdo S. Yazbeck
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464804908

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Africa's Demographic Transition by David Canning,Sangeeta Raja,Abdo S. Yazbeck Pdf

Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a 'bulge' generation and a large number of working age people, giving a boost to the economy. In the short run lower fertility leads to lower youth dependency rates and greater female labor force participation outside the home. Smaller family sizes also mean more resources to invest in the health and education per child boosting worker productivity. In the long run increased life spans from health improvements mean that this large, high-earning cohort will also want to save for retirement, creating higher savings and investments, leading to further productivity gains. Two things are required for the demographic dividend to generate an African economic takeoff. The first is to speed up the fertility decline that is currently slow or stalled in many countries. The second is economic policies that take advantage of the opportunity offered by demography. While demographic change can produce more, and high quality, workers, this potential workforce needs to be productively employed if Africa is to reap the dividend. However, once underway, the relationship between demographic change and human development works in both directions, creating a virtuous cycle that can accelerate fertility decline, social development, and economic growth. Empirical evidence points to three key factors for speeding the fertility transition: child health, female education, and women's empowerment, particularly through access to family planning. Harnessing the dividend requires job creation for the large youth cohorts entering working age, and encouraging foreign investment until domestic savings and investment increase. The appropriate mix of policies in each country depends on their stage of the demographic transition.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on the Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309049429

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Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on the Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa Pdf

This overview includes chapters on child mortality, adult mortality, fertility, proximate determinants, marriage, internal migration, international migration, and the demographic impact of AIDS.

Author : Charles Teller,Assefa Hailemariam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048189182

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The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa by Charles Teller,Assefa Hailemariam Pdf

"The heated Malthusian-Bosrupian debates still rage over consequences of high population growth, rapid urbanization, dense rural populations and young age structures in the face of drought, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, instability and the global economic crisis. However, while facile generalizations about the lack of demographic change and lack of progress in meeting the MDGs in sub-Saharan Africa are commonplace, they are often misleading and belie the socio-cultural change that is occurring among a vanguard of more educated youth. Even within Ethiopia, the second largest country at the Crossroads of Africa and the Middle East, different narratives emerge from analysis of longitudinal, micro-level analysis as to how demographic change and responses are occurring, some more rapidly than others. The book compares Ethiopia with other Africa countries, and demonstrates the uniqueness of an African-type demographic transition: a combination of poverty-related negative factors (unemployment, disease, food insecurity) along with positive education, health and higher age-of-marriage trends that are pushing this ruggedly rural and land-locked population to accelerate the demographic transition and stay on track to meet most of the MDGs. This book takes great care with the challenges of inadequate data and weak analytical capacity to research this incipient transition, trying to unravel some of the complexities in this vulnerable Horn of Africa country: A slowly declining population growth rates with rapidly declining child mortality, very high chronic under-nutrition, already low urban fertility but still very high rural fertility; and high population-resource pressure along with rapidly growing small urban places”

Author : J. Adésínà
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230590984

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Social Policy in Sub-Saharan African Context by J. Adésínà Pdf

This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.

Author : Susan Scribner
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821329944

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Policies Affecting Fertility and Contraceptive Use by Susan Scribner Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 272. Public examinations in developing countries play a critical role in the selection of students for participation in the educational system. The exams dictate what is taught, how it is taught, and what is and is not learned. They are academic, have little reference to the everyday lives of the students, are limited to pencil-and-paper tests, and are biased toward high-achievers. Thus, students who leave school at an early stage are provided with inadequate opportunities for acquiring relevant knowledge and skills. This study identifies practices associated with examinations that may create inequities for some students. These include scoring procedures, the use of culturally inappropriate questions, fee requirements, private tutoring, exams in a language unfamiliar to the student, and a variety of malpractices. Quota systems that deal with differences in performance associated with location, ethnicity, or language group membership also creates inequities for some students. The report concludes that the limited available evidence does not indicate that examinations create inequities between genders and that ranking schools on the basis of students' examination performance may not provide a fair assessment of the work of schools.

Author : F. N. Hammond,Y. Antwi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230274990

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Economic Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa Real Estate Policies by F. N. Hammond,Y. Antwi Pdf

Investments are widely accepted as the matchless path to development. Real estate is as much a prerequisite for investment as are capital and labour. Nonetheless, relative progress in ensuring that arrangements concerning real estate are compatible with desired magnitudes of investments in Africa remains far from satisfactory. Treatment of real estate in the development literature remains tangential and incoherent. This volume explores why real estate policies in Africa have not worked well and examines how they can or should be more organised for efficient and successful outcomes. This book is essential reading for all interested in development economics, real estate economics and African studies.