transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical … product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. …

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in …

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority … Management Program and Niger's Community Action Program target women's needs as caretakers. But most reviewed projects do not …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

planning aid to countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is higher than aid to non-SSA countries, and that high fertility rate …

The rate of fertility decline has been slow in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the Demographic and Health Surveys for … 21 SSA countries between 1990 and 2014, we examine the within-country fertility patterns by wealth, applying the … Bongaarts (2015) proximate determinants model. We find that overall, fertility has declined in SSA for the richest, but not for …

-Saharan Africa. Given the importance of the state in industrial policy, this paper considers the implications for these discussions …

on local revenues in sub-Saharan Africa, a region where local fiscal capacity is limited and endogenously determined by … of many rural districts in Africa - intergovernmental transfers facilitate local revenue generation instead of …