Session 25:
Population growth and poverty linkages in Africa
Chair: Cheikh Mbacke, Independent Consultant
Discussant: Tamara C. Fox, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The lagging demographic and health transitions in rural Ethiopia, 1990-2005: Analysis of productive assets, sociocultural, agro-ecological and health service coverage factors effecting trends in fertility, mortality and nutrition • Charles H Teller, Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and Addis Ababa University ; Tesfayi Gebreselassie, Macro International Inc. ; Assefa Hailemariam, Addis Ababa University
The effect of interventions to reduce fertility on economic growth • Quamrul Ashraf, Brown University ; Ashley Lester, Brown University ; David N. Weil, Brown University
Achieving the millennium development goals: The contribution of fulfilling unmet need for family planning • Scott Moreland, Constella Futures
The role of demographic effects in changes in poverty in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1993 to 2004 • Ingrid Woolard, University of Cape Town ; Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town ; David Lam, University of Michigan
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