The demographic dividend describes the interplay between changes in a population’s age structure due to the demographic transition and rapid economic growth. Except for a few countries in Southern Africa and some island nations, fertility rates and youth dependency rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are among the highest in the world, exposing the region to higher poverty rates, smaller investments in children, lower labor productivity, high unemployment...
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2015/01/01
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Africa’s demographic transition : dividend or disaster?
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Canning,David J.; Jobanputra,Sangeeta Raja; Yazbeck,Abdo S..
Africa’s demographic transition : dividend or disaster? (English). Africa development forum Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/131891468179371220