DavidCanning, SangeetaRaja, and Abdo S.Yazbeck (eds.) Africa's Demographic Transition: Dividend or Disaster? World Bank Publications, 2015. 214 p. $35.00

Seizing the Demographic Dividend

One of the reasons for tightly regulating apprenticeships was to prevent companies from hiring cheap labour under the guise of an apprenticeship programme. A simpler set of provisions to streamline regulation and incentivize corporates while protecting the interest and well-being of apprentices may now be needed. How can it be made to work? The rules and regulations overseeing apprenticeships n...

Xx. the Demographic Dividend and Poverty Reduction

The ICPD Programme of Action addresses a wide range of issues that bear on poverty reduction. This brief note focuses on the effects of fertility decline associated with improved access to reproductive health services and their quality. The note summarizes new research on the demographic dividend, shows the implications of this work for poverty reduction, and presents new analysis of how fertil...

The Demographic Dividend and Poverty Reduction

Bank Dividend Policy as a Signal of Bank Quality

This article examines whether the dividendpolicy of bank holding companies is used as a signal of their quality. The study found evidence to support the dividend signaling argument-that is, that there is a positive relationship between bank dividendsper share and bank quality rating. Aaiiitionally, an inverse relationship between the dividend payout ratio and bank quality was found. Therefore, ...

Epidemiology and the demographic transition in the New World