Africa is the poorest region of the world in terms of income and material living standards. This chapter 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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