Africa is the world’s poorest region in terms of income and material living standards. This chapter re-evaluates and explains how poverty rates are measured and how they are made comparable over time...
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Keyword: Urbanization
Towns and cities existed throughout Africa’s past. However since the late twentieth century Africans are witnessing a historically unprecedented transition from living mainly in rural areas to residing in towns and cities....
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What we know about a population – its size, growth rate and density, is fundamental when we are to explain economic-, social- and even political processes of change. How we are to...
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