Harnessing Africa’s Demographic Dividend

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...

Microeconomic Foundations of the Demographic Dividend

The potential economic returns to the demographic transition are high. As countries move from a steady state with high mortality and high fertility to an equilibrium with low mortality and fewer children, lower dependency ratios, higher investment in human and physical capital as well as increased female labor force participation contribute to economic growth. In this paper, we analyze the demo...

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

The Diminishing Demographic Dividend and Implication for Wage Inflation