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 la

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 popu

There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and

Fertility rates and population growth influence economic development. The marked declines in fertility seen in some developing nations have been accompanied by

"The heated Malthusian-Bosrupian debates still rage over consequences of high population growth, rapid urbanization, dense rural populations and young age struc