Who’s Blowing Smoke on Energy Poverty and the Global Disease Burden?
4/30/13
Me, perhaps. In my last post on why President Obama should make electricity his signature Africa policy initiative, I claimed:
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Global Health Policy
Opening Up Microdata Access in Africa
10/19/12
In this post, Gabriel Demombynes, Senior Economist in the Nairobi office of the World Bank, describes some of the issues raised at the Center for Global Development and the African Population & Health Research Center’s first meeting of the Data for African Development Working Group meeting last month. This blog was originally posted to the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog on October 1, 2012.
by Gabriel Demombynes
Recently I attended the inaugural meeting of the Data for African Development Working Group put together by the Center for Global Development and the African Population & Health Research Center here in Nairobi. The group aims to improve data for policymaking on the continent and in particular to overcome “political economy” problems in data collection and dissemination.
A Wake-Up Call on Contraceptive Rates in Africa
10/11/12
Between 1970 and 2010, most emerging countries achieved impressive gains in contraceptive coverage. As a result, their fertility has declined, their population growth rate has slowed down, and many of these countries have been able to capture the economic benefits of the demographic dividend, which occurs when the labor force becomes relatively larger in the total population thanks to lower fertility levels. In addition, the fertility decline improves the dependency ratios and reduces the burden of youth on working adults.
Book Chapter: AIDS and the Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital in Africa
12/1/04
In this chapter from Markus Haacker's book on the macroeconomic implications of HIV/AIDS, Nancy Birdsall and Amar Hamoudi discuss the effect AIDS has on the supply of and demand for education in Africa.