Supplement to Population and Development Review, Vol. 43
John B. Casterline and John Bongaarts, editors
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
- Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa
John B. Casterline
Fertility Transition in Africa
- Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future Fertility Change in sub-Saharan Africa
Patrick Gerland, Ann Biddlecom, and Vladimíra Kantorová - Africa’s Unique Fertility Transition
John Bongaarts - African Transitions and Fertility Inequality: A Demographic Kuznets Hypothesis
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Sarah Giroux, and Michel Tenikue - Fertility Desires and the Course of Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa
John B. Casterline and Samuel Agyei-Mensah - Trends in Age at Marriage and the Onset of Fertility Transition in sub-Saharan Africa
Véronique Hertrich
Family Planning
- The Impact of Contraceptive Use and Abortion on Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: Estimates for 2003–2014
Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole, and Jacqueline E. Darroch - Contraceptive Practice in sub-Saharan Africa
Amy O. Tsui, Win Brown, and Qingfeng Li - Contemporary Use of Traditional Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa
Clémentine Rossier and Jamaica Corker - Changes in Use of Family Planning among the Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi Slums
Donatien Beguy, Alex C. Ezeh, Blessing U. Mberu, and Jacques B.O. Emina
Consequences of Fertility Decline
- The Effect of Fertility Decline on Economic Growth in Africa: A Macrosimulation Model
Mahesh Karra, David Canning, and Joshua Wilde - The Challenges Posed by Demographic Change in sub-Saharan Africa: A Concise Overview
John Cleland and Kazuyo Machiyama
Policies and Programs
- Fertility Transitions in Ghana and Kenya: Trends, Determinants, and Implications for Policy and Programs
Ian Askew, Ndugga Maggwa, and Francis Obare - The Politics of Family Planning Policies and Programs in sub-Saharan Africa
John F. May - The Persistence of High Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: A Comment
Cheikh Mbacké