Title: The demographic background to development in Africa
Abstract:Development in Africa is not nearly as rapid as hoped for, and development projects are sporadic but not numerous, yet population growth is faster than anywhere else in the world and population redist...Development in Africa is not nearly as rapid as hoped for, and development projects are sporadic but not numerous, yet population growth is faster than anywhere else in the world and population redistribution is accelerating more than most countries would wish. The relationships between development and development projects on the one hand and rapid population growth and redistribution on the other are far from simple or stable in a continent with such strong spatial unevenness and heterogeneity of population geography and such remarkable diversity and fragmentation of political geography. Thus, in order to understand these relationships, and how Africa's many countries deal with them or think about them, it is important to consider the demographic background to development.Read More
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-10-10
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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