This article utilises a choice theory based on a three-equation simultaneous model to analyse determinants of contraception, desired number of children and fertility. The results show that a simultaneous choice model predicts the consequences of modernisation on human fertility and suggests ways...

This article suggests that state power has been used to foster private rent-seeking, rather than productive local private investment, in order to promote and sustain the political cohesion of ruling classes. The political consolidation of dominant rentier classes creates obstacles to the...

This article shows the anthropometric status of females in sub-Saharan Africa to be in par or even better than that of males. The findings corroborate Boserup's theory. Female labour participation in the agricultural sector is comparatively high, polygamy, bride-wealth and early marriage of...